Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An opening in a solid structure or surface; a cleft or breach.
- noun A break in a line of defense.
- noun An opening through mountains; a pass.
- noun A space between objects or points; an aperture.
- noun An interruption of continuity.
- noun A conspicuous difference or imbalance; a disparity.
- noun A problematic situation resulting from such a disparity.
- noun A spark gap.
- intransitive verb To make an opening or openings in.
- intransitive verb To make or adjust a space between (objects or points) or in (a device).
- intransitive verb To be or become open.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A break or opening, as in a fence, a wall, or the like; a breach; a chasm; a way of passage, as between rocks or through a mountain; a vacant space.
- noun Specifically A deep sloping ravine, notch, or cleft cutting a mountain-ridge.
- noun In general, any hiatus, breach, or interruption of consecutiveness or continuity: as, a gap in an argument.
- noun See the extract, and break-lathe.
- To notch or jag; cut into teeth like those of a saw.
- To make a break or opening in, as a fence, a wall, or any mass of matter.
- To cause a hiatus of any kind in; cause to lose consecutiveness or continuity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To notch, as a sword or knife.
- transitive verb To make an opening in; to breach.
- noun An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; ; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or defect; a vacant space or time; a hiatus; a mountain pass.
- noun (Aëronautics) The vertical distance between two superposed surfaces, esp. in a biplane.
- noun (Mach.) a turning lathe with a deep notch in the bed to admit of turning a short object of large diameter.
- noun to expose one's self for the protection of something; to make defense against any assailing danger; to take the place of a fallen defender or supporter.
- noun to secure a weak point; to repair a defect.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
- noun An opening allowing passage or entrance.
- noun An opening that implies a breach or defect.
- noun A vacant space or time.
- noun A hiatus.
- noun A mountain or hill pass.
- noun Sussex A sheltered area of coast between two
cliffs (mostly restricted to place names). - noun baseball The regions between the
outfielders . - noun Australia The shortfall between the amount the medical
insurer will pay to the service provider and the scheduledfee for the item. - verb transitive To
notch , as a sword or knife. - verb transitive To make an opening in; to
breach . - verb To check the size of a gap.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a difference (especially an unfortunate difference) between two opinions or two views or two situations
- noun an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- noun a pass between mountain peaks
- noun a narrow opening
- verb make an opening or gap in
- noun an open or empty space in or between things
- noun a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Bull, one of this year's panelists, said this is not the first NACAC panel on the topic, but it is the first time the term gap year was used in the title.
Forbes.com: News Tanya Mohn 2011
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Bull, one of this year's panelists, said this is not the first NACAC panel on the topic, but it is the first time the term gap year was used in the title.
Forbes.com: News Tanya Mohn 2011
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I tried to put together a rough estimate of just how large this gap is after the jump.
AVATAR Achieves The Highest Worldwide Gross of All Time with $1.84 Billion – Collider.com 2010
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What falls in the gap is any subtlety of insight into actual human beings.
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This past week, it became clear that such a gap is already beginning to widen dramatically, perhaps decisively.
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What falls in the gap is any subtlety of insight into actual human beings.
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I am personally of the opinion that this gap is at least in large part genetic, but also entirely meaningless and useless outside the narrow area of education policy.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A View from an Incoming Harvard 1L 2010
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What falls in the gap is any subtlety of insight into actual human beings.
Wood’s Dying Satyr 2009
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I dont think the gap is a reflection of the lack of faith.
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KLM Royal Dutch Airlines said that by midday Sunday it had flown four planes through what it described as a gap in the layer of microscopic dust over Holland and Germany.
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