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Gap
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- 1 A town, the capital of the department of Hautes-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
- 2 Initialism of Great Ape Project. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 1 An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
"He made a gap in the fence by kicking at a weak spot."
- 2 Alternative form of gup (elected head of a gewog in Bhutan) alt-of, alternative
- 3 an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity wordnet
- 4 An opening allowing passage or entrance.
"We can slip through that gap between the buildings."
- 5 a narrow opening wordnet
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- 6 An opening that implies a breach or defect.
"There is a gap between the roof and the gutter."
- 7 a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures wordnet
- 8 A vacant space or time.
"I have a gap in my schedule next Tuesday."
- 9 a difference (especially an unfortunate difference) between two opinions or two views or two situations wordnet
- 10 A hiatus, a pause in something which is otherwise continuous.
"I'm taking a gap."
- 11 a pass between mountain peaks; geomorphological term for the lowest point on a mountain ridge between two peaks wordnet
- 12 A vacancy, deficit, absence, or lack.
"Their departure has left a gap in the workforce."
- 13 an open or empty space in or between things wordnet
- 14 A mountain or hill pass.
"The exploring party went through the high gap in the mountains."
- 15 A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
"At Birling Gap we can stop and go have a picnic on the beach."
- 16 The regions between the outfielders.
"Jones doubled through the gap."
- 17 The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will pay to the service provider and the scheduled fee for the item. Australia
"Under bulk billing the patient does not pay a gap, and the medical practitioner receives 85% of the scheduled fee."
- 18 The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities with regard to life expectancy, education, health, etc. Australia, literary, usually
- 19 An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment.
- 20 The vagina. euphemistic, slang
- 1 To notch, as a sword or knife. transitive
- 2 To stare or gape. US, dated, intransitive, slang, transitive
"Well, dey would all begin stretchin' and gappin', and den some of dem would say, with a gap and another stretch: […]"
- 3 make an opening or gap in wordnet
- 4 To make an opening in; to breach. transitive
- 5 To check the size of a gap. transitive
"I gapped all the spark plugs in my car, but then realized I had used the wrong manual and had made them too small."
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- 6 To surpass (someone or something) by a considerable margin. especially, intransitive, slang, transitive
"Honestly K&C could release today with like a bit more SOT buffs and they'd probably still gap a lot of the game"
- 7 To leave suddenly. New-Zealand, slang
"[Article title:] 'They've just gapped it': Duo fled quarantine authorities after gang funeral"
- 8 To fall or spill open so as to leave a gap. intransitive
"The robe gaps open at the waist, breasts spilling out of a lacy bra that looks like she might have had it since her college days."
Etymology
From Middle English gap, gappe, from Old Norse gap (“an empty space, gap, chasm”), from gapa (“to gape, scream”), from Proto-Germanic *gapōną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂- (“to open wide, gape”). Related to Danish gab (“an expanse, space, gap”), Old English ġeap (“open space, expanse”). Doublet of gape.
From Middle English gap, gappe, from Old Norse gap (“an empty space, gap, chasm”), from gapa (“to gape, scream”), from Proto-Germanic *gapōną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂- (“to open wide, gape”). Related to Danish gab (“an expanse, space, gap”), Old English ġeap (“open space, expanse”). Doublet of gape.
A variant of gape.
Borrowed from French Gap.
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