Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word GAP

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Definitions of GAP

1. An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
2. An opening allowing passage or entrance.
3. An opening that implies a breach or defect.
4. A vacant space or time.
5. A hiatus, a pause in something which is otherwise continuous.
6. A vacancy, deficit, absence, or lack.
7. A mountain or hill pass.
8. (Sussex) A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
9. (baseball) The regions between the outfielders.
10. (Australia, for a medical or pharmacy item) The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will pay to the service provider and the scheduled fee for the item.
11. (genetics) An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment.
12. (transitive) To notch, as a sword or knife.
13. (transitive) To make an opening in; to breach.
14. (transitive) To check the size of a gap.
15. (New Zealand, slang) To leave suddenly.
16. Alternative form of gup. (elected head of a gewog in Bhutan)
17. A town in non-city capital in Hautes-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
18. Initialism of w:Great Ape Project.
19. (AU, usually written as) The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities with regard to life expectancy, education, health, etc.
20. (slang, euphemistic) The vagina.
21. (transitive, intransitive, slang, especially, video games, racing) To surpass (someone or something) by a considerable margin.
22. (intransitive) To fall or spill open so as to leave a gap.
23. (intransitive, transitive, US, slang, dated) To stare or gape.

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Examples of Using GAP in a Sentence

• Gulf of execution, a term usually used in human computer interaction to describe the gap between a user's goal for action and the means to execute that goal.
• Ginnunga- is usually interpreted as deriving from a verb meaning "gape" or "yawn", but no such word occurs in Old Norse except in verse 3 of the Eddic poem "Vǫluspá", "gap var ginnunga", which may be a play on the term.
• The concept originally referred to the gap or hole in the wall or fence, rather than a barrier which closed it.
• Neurons communicate with other cells via synapses, which are specialized connections that commonly use minute amounts of chemical neurotransmitters to pass the electric signal from the presynaptic neuron to the target cell through the synaptic gap.
• He presented this 'provisional hypothesis' in his 1868 work The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, intending it to fill what he perceived as a major gap in evolutionary theory at the time.
• By 1969 the popular press had taken notice of Western attempts to recreate the substance and sparked fears of a "polywater gap" between the United States and Soviet Union.
• The name 'Stockholm' easily splits into two distinct parts – Stock-holm, "Log-islet", but as no serious explanation to the name has been produced, various myths and legends have attempted to fill in the gap.
• The output signal was at a carrier frequency defined by the physical construction of the gap, modulated by the alternating current signal from the alternator.
• Voice problems that require voice analysis most commonly originate from the vocal folds or the laryngeal musculature that controls them, since the folds are subject to collision forces with each vibratory cycle and to drying from the air being forced through the small gap between them, and the laryngeal musculature is intensely active during speech or singing and is subject to tiring.
• His dependence on his sources is made clear by the change in tone and style between the Eunapian and Olympiodoran sections, and by the gap left in between them.
• Credited with helping popularize martial arts films in the 1970s, Lee is considered by some commentators and martial artists to be the most influential martial artist of all time and a pop culture icon of the 20th century, who bridged the gap between East and West.
• He won six Formula One races, with a record gap of over six years between two of these – the 1983 South African Grand Prix and 1990 San Marino Grand Prix.
• Otherwise, that cut defines a unique irrational number which, loosely speaking, fills the "gap" between A and B.
• quantified the gap in the fine structure of the spectral lines of the hydrogen atom, which had been measured precisely by Michelson and Morley in 1887.
• Since the electron density remains constant when the Fermi level is in a clean spectral gap, this situation corresponds to one where the Fermi level is an energy with a finite density of states, though these states are localized (see Anderson localization).
• A Kirkwood gap is a gap or dip in the distribution of the semi-major axes (or equivalently of the orbital periods) of the orbits of main-belt asteroids.
• There may be a gap between the solidus and liquidus; within the gap, the substance consists of a mixture of crystals and liquid (like a "slurry").
• The boat departed Bergen on 19 April 1941 and headed for the Atlantic via the gap between the Faeroe and Shetland Islands.
• Nazaire in occupied France, via the gap between Iceland and the Faeroe Islands and out into the mid-Atlantic.
• She had gone the 'long' way round the British Isles, by way of the gap between Iceland and the Faeroe Islands, heading out into mid-Atlantic toward the Caribbean.

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