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as a verb: - 1
gap
noun
1 gap
2 gap
An open or empty space in or between things:
— The explosion made a gap in the wall.
synonym: opening.
Dutch: tussenruimte
Polish: otwór
3 gap
A narrow opening.
synonym: crack.
4 gap
A pass between mountain peaks.
synonym: col.
5 gap
A difference (especially an unfortunate difference) between two opinions or two views or two situations.
6 gap
An act of delaying or interrupting the continuity:
— There was a gap in his account.
synonyms: break, disruption, interruption.
Roget 53:
incompleteness
etc.
adj.;
deficiency,
short measure;
shortcoming
etc.
304;
insufficiency
etc.
640;
imperfection
etc.
651;
immaturity
etc.
(nonpreparation)
674;
half measures.
[part wanting]
defect,
deficit,
defalcation,
omission;
caret;
shortage;
interval
etc.
198;
break
etc.
(discontinuity)
70;
noncompletion
etc.
730;
missing link.
missing piece,
missing part,
gap,
hole,
lacuna.
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Roget 70:
discontinuity;
disjunction
etc.
44;
anacoluthon†;
interruption,
break,
fracture,
flaw,
fault,
crack,
cut;
gap
etc.
(interval)
198;
solution of continuity,
caesura;
broken thread;
parenthesis,
episode,
rhapsody,
patchwork;
intermission;
alternation
etc.
(periodicity)
138;
dropping fire.
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Roget 198:
interval,
interspace†;
separation
etc.
44;
break,
gap,
opening;
hole
etc.
260;
chasm,
hiatus,
caesura;
interruption,
interregnum;
interstice,
lacuna,
cleft,
mesh,
crevice,
chink,
rime,
creek,
cranny,
crack,
chap,
slit,
fissure,
scissure†,
rift,
flaw,
breach,
rent,
gash,
cut,
leak,
dike,
ha-ha.
gorge,
defile,
ravine,
canon,
crevasse,
abyss,
abysm;
gulf;
inlet,
frith†,
strait,
gully;
pass;
furrow
etc.
259;
abra†;
barranca†,
barranco†;
clove [U.S.],
gulch [U.S.],
notch [U.S.];
yawning gulf;
hiatus maxime [Lat.],
hiatus valde deflendus [Lat.];
parenthesis
etc.
(interjacence)
228†;
void
etc.
(absence)
187;
incompleteness
etc.
53.
[interval of time]
period
etc.
108;
interim
(time)
106.
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Dutch: verstoring
verb
1 gap
Make an opening or gap in.
synonym: breach.
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