These are the meanings of the letters PTA when you unscramble them.
- Apt (a.)
Fit or fitted; suited; suitable; appropriate.
- Apt (a.)
Having an habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; -- used of things.
- Apt (a.)
Inclined; disposed customarily; given; ready; -- used of persons.
- Apt (a.)
Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn; prompt; expert; as, a pupil apt to learn; an apt scholar.
- Apt (v. t.)
To fit; to suit; to adapt.
- Pat (a.)
Exactly suitable; fit; convenient; timely.
- Pat (adv.)
In a pat manner.
- Pat (n.)
A light, quik blow or stroke with the fingers or hand; a tap.
- Pat (n.)
A small mass, as of butter, shaped by pats.
- Pat (v. t.)
To strike gently with the fingers or hand; to stroke lightly; to tap; as, to pat a dog.
- Tap (n.)
A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.
- Tap (n.)
A hole or pipe through which liquor is drawn.
- Tap (n.)
A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel.
- Tap (n.)
A place where liquor is drawn for drinking; a taproom; a bar.
- Tap (n.)
A plug or spile for stopping a hole pierced in a cask, or the like; a faucet.
- Tap (n.)
A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed, -- usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo.
- Tap (n.)
A tool for forming an internal screw, as in a nut, consisting of a hardened steel male screw grooved longitudinally so as to have cutting edges.
- Tap (n.)
Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor; as, a liquor of the same tap.
- Tap (v. i.)
To strike a gentle blow.
- Tap (v. t.)
Hence, to draw from (anything) in any analogous way; as, to tap telegraph wires for the purpose of intercepting information; to tap the treasury.
- Tap (v. t.)
To draw, or cause to flow, by piercing.
- Tap (v. t.)
To form an internal screw in (anything) by means of a tool called a tap; as, to tap a nut.
- Tap (v. t.)
To pierce so as to let out, or draw off, a fluid; as, to tap a cask, a tree, a tumor, etc.
- Tap (v. t.)
To put a new sole or heel on; as, to tap shoes.
- Tap (v. t.)
To strike with a slight or gentle blow; to touch gently; to rap lightly; to pat; as, to tap one with the hand or a cane.