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Increasingly, companies are tapping into these desires directly through what has come to be known as gamification: essentially, turning work into a game.

Seize opportunities to tap their potential.

The residents are billed by "net metering": they pay for the amount of power they tap off the grid, less the kilowatts (千瓦) they feed into it.

Scientists have tried to tap Internet donors, too, with mixed success.

The app will use Bluetooth technology to unlock the room with a tap.

When travelling overseas, do you buy water in plastic bottles or take your chances with tap water?

The reasoning behind this saying is that low oil prices discourage investment in new production capacity, eventually shifting the oil supply curve backward and bringing prices back up as existing oil fields—which can be tapped at relatively low marginal cost—are depleted.

Nearly a decade ago it was predicted that viewers of Friends, a popular situation comedy, would soon be able to purchase a sweater like Jennifer Aniston's with a few taps on their remote control.

Beyond the Antarctic treaties, huge obstacles persist to tapping these resources, like drifting icebergs that could jeopardise offshore platforms.

Tapping into how we already see ourselves is crucial.

Even seemingly harmless details on a resume, it appears, can tap into recruiters' biases.

Tap women's economic potential.

But once these plants use up their stored reserve or tap out the underground supply, they cease growing and start to die.

Cerling's team collected tap water samples from 600 cities and constructed a map of the regional differences.

Introducing a fundraising requirement for students does not help, as better-off children can tap up richer aunts and neighbours.

While it may be impossible to prevent kids from drinking tap water that may contain trace amounts of chemicals, keeping kids away from lawns recently sprayed with chemicals and freshly dry-cleaned clothes can't hurt.

A lunchtime escape allows her to keep a boss from tapping her on the shoulder.

I would excitedly turn the tap on and brush the comb carefully.

The likables' plays-well-with-others qualities strengthen schoolyard friendships, jump-start interpersonal skills and, when tapped early, are employed ever after in life and work.

Television is a one-way tap flowing into our homes.