gap
IPA: gˈæp
noun
- An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
- An opening allowing passage or entrance.
- An opening that implies a breach or defect.
- A vacant space or time.
- A hiatus, a pause in something which is otherwise continuous.
- A vacancy, deficit, absence, or lack.
- A mountain or hill pass.
- (Sussex) A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
- (baseball) The regions between the outfielders.
- (Australia, for a medical or pharmacy item) The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will pay to the service provider and the scheduled fee for the item.
- (Australia) (usually written as "the gap") The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities with regard to life expectancy, education, health, etc.
- (genetics) An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment.
- A town, the capital of the department of the Hautes-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
- Alternative form of gup (elected head of a gewog in Bhutan) [(India, colloquial) Gossip or rumor; nonsensical or silly talk; blather.]
- Initialism of Great Ape Project.
verb
- (transitive) To notch, as a sword or knife.
- (transitive) To make an opening in; to breach.
- (transitive) To check the size of a gap.
- (New Zealand, slang) To leave suddenly.
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Examples of "gap" in Sentences
- I am trying to fill in the gap.
- The gap in the pad forms the emitter.
- The difference is the location of the gap.
- Both the road and the railway have the gap.
- The securing of the Karbala gap was pivotal.
- Gilbert rewrote the libretto around the gaps.
- This elongation enlarges the width of the gap.
- A spatula is provided to push the mass into the gap.
- It is the role of the generator to randomly fill this gap.
- Usually a gap is in the decoy spread to allow ducks to land in the gap.
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