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gap
/ɡæp/
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What does gap mean?
noun
- An opening in anything, made by breaking or parting.
- An opening allowing passage or entrance.
- An opening that implies a breach or defect.
More meanings (22)
noun
- 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.
- A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
- The regions between the outfielders.
- The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will pay to the service provider and the scheduled fee for the item.
- (literary) The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities with regard to life expectancy, education, health, etc.
- An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment.
- (slang) The vagina.
- Alternative form of gup (“elected head of a gewog in Bhutan”).
- Acronym of guilty anticipated plea.
verb
- To notch, as a sword or knife.
- To make an opening in; to breach.
- To check the size of a gap.
- (slang) To surpass (someone or something) by a considerable margin.
- (slang) To leave suddenly.
- To fall or spill open so as to leave a gap.
- Of an electric train, to be positioned, or to cause to be positioned, between electrical pickup points, causing loss of power.
- (dated, slang) To stare or gape.
proper noun
- A town, the capital of the department of Hautes-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
- Acronym of Great Ape Project.
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IPA pronunciation
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He turned and watched the mass of guns, men, and horses sweeping in a wide curve toward a gap in a fence.
The government tried to narrow the income gap by raising the wages of budget-funded workers - mainly teachers and health care specialists.
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Any gap at your fireside on such a night--such a gap least of all--I wouldn’t make, for the wealth of the Indies!’
There must be more actual material, more stuff, more appliances, and more opportunities for doing things, before the gap can be overcome.
Then through a gap in the hills far to the left we saw a little black speck moving rapidly in our direction.