gap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gap
ipa: /ɡæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: gaps
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”); compare English gape.
Senses: examples: text: He made a gap in the fence by kicking at a weak spot.
glosses: An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
examples: text: We can slip through that gap between the buildings.
glosses: An opening allowing passage or entrance.
examples: text: There is a gap between the roof and the gutter.
glosses: An opening that implies a breach or defect.
examples: text: I have a gap in my schedule next Tuesday.
glosses: A vacant space or time.
examples: text: I'm taking a gap.
text: You must wait for a gap in the traffic before crossing the road.
glosses: A hiatus, a pause in something which is otherwise continuous.
examples: text: Their departure has left a gap in the workforce.
text: Find words to fill the gaps in an incomplete sentence.
text: She has a gap in her teeth.
text: The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.
ref: 2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
glosses: A vacancy, deficit, absence, or lack.
examples: text: The exploring party went through the high gap in the mountains.
glosses: A mountain or hill pass.
examples: text: At Birling Gap we can stop and go have a picnic on the beach.
qualifier: Sussex
glosses: A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
examples: text: Jones doubled through the gap.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The regions between the outfielders.
examples: text: Under bulk billing the patient does not pay a gap, and the medical practitioner receives 85% of the scheduled fee.
ref: 2008, Eileen Willis, Louise Reynolds, Helen Keleher, Understanding the Australian Health Care System, page 5:
glosses: The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will pay to the service provider and the scheduled fee for the item.
raw_tags: for a medical or pharmacy item
glosses: The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities with regard to life expectancy, education, health, etc.
raw_tags: as "the gap"
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment.
synonyms: word: axe wound
word: bearded clam
word: beaver
word: berk
word: bonne bouche
word: box
word: bun
word: bush
word: cavern
word: clunge
word: coin slot
word: cooch
word: coochie
word: cookie
word: cooter
word: cooze
word: crack
word: crevice
word: cunny
word: cunt
word: fanny
word: fish lips
word: foo-foo
word: front bottom
word: front bum
word: front hole
word: gash
word: ginch
word: girl
word: Grand Canyon
word: honeypot
word: hoo-ha
word: innie
word: juice box
word: kebab
word: kitty
word: la-la
word: love box
word: love tunnel
word: minge
word: minnie
word: monosyllable
word: moocha
word: muff
word: muffin
word: nonny
word: pee-pee
word: penis fly trap
word: pink
word: pink bits
word: poontang
word: pump
word: punani
word: pussy
word: quim
word: sausage wallet
word: sheath
word: slit
word: snapper
word: snatch
word: squish mitten
word: stench trench
word: strange
word: sugar walls
word: tuppence
word: trap
word: twat
word: twinkle
word: vadge
word: vag
word: vagina
word: vaginer
word: va-jay-jay
word: vertical smile
word: Virginia
word: vulva
word: wee-wee
word: whisker biscuit
word: wizard's sleeve
glosses: The vagina.
Synonyms: sense: opening made by breaking or parting
word: break
sense: opening made by breaking or parting
word: hole
sense: opening made by breaking or parting
word: rip
sense: opening made by breaking or parting
word: split
sense: opening made by breaking or parting
word: tear
sense: opening made by breaking or parting
word: rift
sense: opening made by breaking or parting
word: chasm
sense: opening made by breaking or parting
word: fissure
sense: opening allowing passage or entrance
word: break
word: clearing
word: hole
word: opening
sense: opening that implies a breach or defect
word: space
sense: vacant space or time
word: break
word: space
word: window
word: interspace
word: interim
word: hiatus
word: pause
sense: mountain pass
word: col
sense: mountain pass
word: neck
sense: mountain pass
word: pass
Hyponyms: air gap
bomber gap
credibility gap
digital gap
gender gap
generation gap
Hausdorff gap
missile gap
orgasm gap
pay gap
prime gap
spark gap
Weierstrass gap
Derived terms: accidental gap
age gap
airgap
anion gap
bandgap
Barnesmore Gap
bridge the gap
Buffalo Gap
coal gap
content gap
eigengap
fermium gap
fillgap
find the gap
find the gaps
Gap-1
Gap-2
gap buffer
gap byte
gap concept
gap creationism
gap creationist
gap-fill
gap fill
gapful
gap it
gap junction
gap lapper
gap-lapper
gap lathe
gapless
gaplike
gapmer
gap of danger
gapper
gappist
gappy
gap sheet
gapsite
gap theorist
gap theory
gap-toothed
gap wedge
gap yah
gap year
genetic gap
high anion gap metabolic acidosis
immunity gap
intragap
Kirkwood gap
leaf gap
legal gap
lexical gap
Magazine Gap
Medigap
microgap
Middle Gap
midgap
mind the gap
minigap
multigap
nanogap
Palakkad Gap
parasitic gap
pleasure gap
power gap
pregap
pseudogap
reality gap
Romer's gap
Scots' Gap
stand in the gap
stop-gap
stopgap
subgap
Suwalki gap
take the gap
thigh gap
Victoria Gap
Wan Chai Gap
Watford Gap
widegap
wind gap
Wong Nai Chung Gap
yepsen