gap
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
biology
games
genetics
hobbies
lifestyle
medicine
motor-racing
natural-sciences
racing
sciences
sports
video-games
Etymology: Inherited 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.
Inflected forms:
form: gaps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gaps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gapping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gapped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gapped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
pos: noun
examples: He made a gap in the fence by kicking at a weak spot.
gloss: An opening allowing passage or entrance.
pos: noun
examples: We can slip through that gap between the buildings.
gloss: An opening that implies a breach or defect.
pos: noun
examples: There is a gap between the roof and the gutter.
gloss: A vacant space or time.
pos: noun
examples: I have a gap in my schedule next Tuesday.
gloss: A hiatus, a pause in something which is otherwise continuous.
pos: noun
examples: I'm taking a gap.
You must wait for a gap in the traffic before crossing the road.
gloss: A vacancy, deficit, absence, or lack.
pos: noun
examples: Their departure has left a gap in the workforce.
Find words to fill the gaps in an incomplete sentence.
She has a gap in her teeth.
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.
But there is a wide gap between the dollars being invested in creators and the respect that is paid to them. It is time to take influencers seriously.
gloss: A mountain or hill pass.
pos: noun
examples: The exploring party went through the high gap in the mountains.
gloss: A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
pos: noun
examples: At Birling Gap we can stop and go have a picnic on the beach.
gloss: The regions between the outfielders.
pos: noun
examples: Jones doubled through the gap.
gloss: The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will pay to the service provider and the scheduled fee for the item.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: Under bulk billing the patient does not pay a gap, and the medical practitioner receives 85% of the scheduled fee.
gloss: The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities with regard to life expectancy, education, health, etc.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
literary
usually
gloss: An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment.
pos: noun
gloss: The vagina.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
slang
gloss: To notch, as a sword or knife.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To make an opening in; to breach.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To check the size of a gap.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I gapped all the spark plugs in my car, but then realized I had used the wrong manual and had made them too small.
gloss: To surpass (someone or something) by a considerable margin.
pos: verb
tags: especially
intransitive
slang
transitive
examples: Honestly K&C could release today with like a bit more SOT buffs and they'd probably still gap a lot of the game
sometimes dril gets absolutely gapped by average ukraine war reddit comments
Imagine street racing someone then suddenly both of you get gapped by a slammed tiger tank 😂 AKA der "Drippenwagen"
"Not really the reason his team lost" is still not showing up by Chovy's standarts. Like in a way you're downplaying how good this guy has been domestically the last 3-4 years. He is comfortably the best player in the league and is utterly gapping every other midlaner in the league series after series, year after year.
My sports car gets gapped by families of 5 in these all the time and they don't even know we're racing
When you avoid getting buffed next patch due to your players gapping
gloss: To leave suddenly.
pos: verb
tags: New-Zealand
slang
examples: [Article title:] 'They've just gapped it': Duo fled quarantine authorities after gang funeral
gloss: To fall or spill open so as to leave a gap.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
Synonyms: clearing
hole
opening
space
window
interim
hiatus
Derived words: accidental gap
age gap
airgap
anion gap
annular gap junction
bandgap
Barnesmore Gap
Barunga Gap
bridge the gap
Buffalo Gap
Clements Gap
coal gap
content gap
Cooks Gap
Doctors Gap
eigengap
electron gap
fermium gap
fillgap
find the gap
find the gaps
Fowlers Gap
Gap-1
Gap-2
gap buffer
gap byte
gap concept
gap creationism
gap creationist
gap-fill
gap fill
gapful
gap insurance
gap it
gap junction
gap lapper
gap-lapper
gap lathe
gapless
gaplike
gapmer
gap of danger
gapper
gappist
gappy
Gap Ridge
gap sheet
gapsite
Gapsted
gap theorist
gap theory
gap-toothed
gap wedge
gap yah
gap year
genetic gap
Gunning Gap
Halls Gap
Hayes Gap
high anion gap metabolic acidosis
Hope Gap
immunity gap
intragap
Kirkwood gap
leaf gap
legal gap
lexical gap
Magazine Gap
McCullys Gap
Medigap
microgap
Middle Gap
midgap
mind the gap
minigap
Monia Gap
multigap
nanogap
Naughtons Gap
Owens Gap
Palakkad Gap
parasitic gap
pleasure gap
power gap
pregap
pseudogap
reality gap
Romer's gap
root gap
Roses Gap
Scots' Gap
stand in the gap
stop-gap
stopgap
subgap
Suwalki gap
take the gap
The Gap
thigh gap
time gap
Victoria Gap
Wan Chai Gap
Watford Gap
widegap
wind gap
Wong Nai Chung Gap
yepsen
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