Gap

Noun

 * 1) An opening in anything made by breaking or parting
 * a gap in a fence
 * He made a gap by kicking a weak spot.
 * 1) An opening allowing passage or entrance
 * We can slip through that gap.
 * 1) An opening that implies a breach or defect
 * There is a gap between the roof and the gutter.
 * 1) A vacant space or time
 * I have a gap in my schedule next Tuesday.
 * 1) A hiatus.
 * I'm taking a gap.
 * 1) A mountain or hill pass.
 * The exploring party went through the high gap in the mountains.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  The regions between the outfielders.
 * Jones doubled through the gap.
 * 1)  (for medical or pharmacy items) the difference between the cost of an item and what the medical insurers will pay for.

Synonyms

 * (opening made by breaking or parting): break, hole, rip, split, tear, rift, chasm, fissure
 * (opening allowing passage or entrance): break, clearing, hole, opening
 * (opening that implies a breach or defect): space
 * (vacant space or time): window
 * (hiatus): hiatus
 * (mountain pass): col, neck, pass
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Derived terms

 * gap year

Verb

 * 1)  To notch, as a sword or knife.
 * 2)  To make an opening in; to breach.
 * 3) To check the size of a gap.
 * I gapped all the sparkplugs in my car then realized I used the wrong manual and had made them too small.

Adjectives for Gap
wide; appalling; unbridgeable; tremendous; invisible; innumerable (pi) ; perceptible; ghastly; apparent; long; conversational; glaring.

Verbs for Gap
break into—; bridge—; cut—; discover—; enter—; escape through—; form—; mend —; notch into—; open into—; pass through—; patch—; span—; stop—; wear into—; —diminishes; —heals; —interrupts; —separates; —unites; —widens.

Thesaurus
abysm, abyss, aperture, arrearage, arroyo, bottom, bottom glade, bottoms, box canyon, breach, break, breakage, broaching, burst, caesura, canyon, cavity, cessation, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, chip, clearing, cleavage, cleave, cleft, cleuch, clough, clove, col, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cut, cut apart, cwm, dale, defalcation, defect, deficiency, deficit, defile, dehisce, delay, dell, difference, dike, dingle, disagreement, disclosure, discontinuity, discrepancy, disparity, disruption, distance, distinction, ditch, divergence, division, donga, draw, excavation, fault, fenestra, fissure, fistula, flaw, flume, fontanel, foramen, fracture, furrow, gape, gash, gat, gill, glen, gorge, groove, grove, gulch, gulf, gully, halt, hang open, hiatus, hole, hollow, incise, incision, inconsistency, inlet, interim, intermission, interruption, interspace, interval, intervale, joint, kloof, lack, lacuna, laying open, leak, letup, lull, lunar rill, missing link, moat, need, notch, nullah, omission, open, opening, opening up, orifice, oscitate, outage, outlet, pass, passage, passageway, pause, pore, ravine, recess, rent, respite, rest, rift, rime, rip, rive, rupture, scale, scissure, seam, separation, shortage, slash, slice, slit, slot, space, splinter, split, stoma, stop, strath, suspension, tear, throwing open, trench, trough, ullage, uncorking, unstopping, vale, valley, void, wadi, wait, want, wantage, yawn

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