Pronunciations (3)
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/ɡæp/
Pronunciation notes
- Australia
- Canada
- General-American
- Received-Pronunciation
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/ɡap/
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- Received-Pronunciation
- Scotland
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/ɡɛp/
Pronunciation notes
- New-Zealand
Noun
An opening in anything, made by breaking or parting.
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He made a gap in the fence by kicking at a weak spot.
An opening allowing passage or entrance.
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We can slip through that gap between the buildings.
An opening that implies a breach or defect.
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There is a gap between the roof and the gutter.
A vacant space or time.
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I have a gap in my schedule next Tuesday.
A hiatus, a pause in something which is otherwise continuous.
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I'm taking a gap.
You must wait for a gap in the traffic before crossing the road.
A vacancy, deficit, absence, or lack.
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Their departure has left a gap in the workforce.
Find words to fill the gaps in an incomplete sentence.
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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.
A mountain or hill pass.
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The exploring party went through the high gap in the mountains.
A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
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At Birling Gap we can stop and go have a picnic on the beach.
The regions between the outfielders.
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Jones doubled through the gap.
The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will pay to the service provider and the scheduled fee for the item.
Usage- Australia
- for a medical or pharmacy item
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Under bulk billing the patient does not pay a gap, and the medical practitioner receives 85% of the scheduled fee.
The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities with regard to life expectancy, education, health, etc.
Usage- Australia
- Literary
- usually
- as "the gap"
An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment.
The vagina.
Usage- euphemistic
- Slang
Verb
To notch, as a sword or knife.
Usage- Transitive
To make an opening in; to breach.
Usage- Transitive
To check the size of a gap.
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I gapped all the spark plugs in my car, but then realized I had used the wrong manual and had made them too small.
To surpass (someone or something) by a considerable margin.
Usage- especially
- Intransitive
- Slang
- Transitive
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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
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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
To leave suddenly.
Usage- New-Zealand
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[Article title:] 'They've just gapped it': Duo fled quarantine authorities after gang funeral
To fall or spill open so as to leave a gap.
Usage- Intransitive
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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.
Of an electric train, to be positioned, or to cause to be positioned, between electrical pickup points, causing loss of power.
Usage- Intransitive
- Transitive
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The lights flickered as the train momentarily gapped.
The train was gapped just outside the station, and passengers were stranded for nearly two hours.
Verb
To stare or gape.
Usage- US usage
- Dated
- Intransitive
- Slang
- Transitive
- Related words
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Well, dey would all begin stretchin' and gappin', and den some of dem would say, with a gap and another stretch: […]
Noun
a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures
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gap between income and outgo
the spread between lending and borrowing costs
an open or empty space in or between things
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there was a small opening between the trees
the explosion made a gap in the wall
a narrow opening
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he opened the window a crack
a pass between mountain peaks; geomorphological term for the lowest point on a mountain ridge between two peaks
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a difference (especially an unfortunate difference) between two opinions or two views or two situations
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an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
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it was presented without commercial breaks
there was a gap in his account
Verb
make an opening or gap in
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