gap
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See also: gäp
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse gap (“chasm”), related to Old Norse gapa (“to gape”); compare gape.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
gap (plural gaps)
- An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
- a gap in a fence; He made a gap by kicking a weak spot.
- An opening allowing passage or entrance.
- We can slip through that gap.
- An opening that implies a breach or defect.
- There is a gap between the roof and the gutter.
- A vacant space or time.
- I have a gap in my schedule next Tuesday.
- A hiatus.
- 2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
- 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.
- I'm taking a gap.
- 2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
- A mountain or hill pass.
- The exploring party went through the high gap in the mountains.
- (Sussex) 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.
- (baseball) The regions between the outfielders.
- Jones doubled through the gap.
- (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.
- 2008, Eileen Willis, Louise Reynolds, Helen Keleher, Understanding the Australian Health Care System, page 5,
- Under bulk billing the patient does not pay a gap, and the medical practitioner receives 85% of the scheduled fee.
- 2008, Eileen Willis, Louise Reynolds, Helen Keleher, Understanding the Australian Health Care System, page 5,
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{{rfdef}}.- 2012 May 13, Andrew Benson, “Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win”, BBC Sport:
- That left Maldonado with a 6.2-second lead. Alonso closed in throughout their third stints, getting the gap down to 4.2secs before Maldonado stopped for the final time on lap 41.
- 2012 May 13, Andrew Benson, “Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win”, BBC Sport:
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{{rfdef}}.- 1995, Robert E. Knoll, “A University on the Defensive 1920-1927”, in Prairie University: A History of the University of Nebraska, page 70:
- When Charles Bessey suddenly died in 1916 at age seventy, he left a gap that was impossible to fill; and though his protégé. R. J. Pool, was a man of intelligence and character, he did not have Bessey’s authority.
- 1995, Robert E. Knoll, “A University on the Defensive 1920-1927”, in Prairie University: A History of the University of Nebraska, page 70:
- (Australia) (usually written as "the gap") The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities with regard to life expectancy, education, health, etc.
Synonyms[edit]
- (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
- (in baseball):
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Translations[edit]
opening made by breaking or parting
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opening allowing passage or entrance
opening that implies a breach or defect
vacant space or time
hiatus — see hiatus
mountain pass
in baseball
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Verb[edit]
gap (third-person singular simple present gaps, present participle gapping, simple past and past participle gapped)
- (transitive) To notch, as a sword or knife.
- (transitive) To make an opening in; to breach.
- (transitive) 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.
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Old Norse[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Presumably from gapa (“to gape”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
gap n (genitive gaps, plural gǫp)
- gap, empty space
- (figuratively) shouting, crying, gab
- Haralds saga herdráða 64, in 1868, C. R. Unger, G. Vigfússon, Flateyjarbok. Udg. efter offentlig foranstaltning, Volume 3. Christiania, page 425:
- […] þar uar suo mikit hareyste og gap […]
- […] there was so much noise and gab […]
- Haralds saga herdráða 64, in 1868, C. R. Unger, G. Vigfússon, Flateyjarbok. Udg. efter offentlig foranstaltning, Volume 3. Christiania, page 425:
Declension[edit]
Declension of gap (strong a-stem)
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | gap | gapit | gǫp | gǫpin |
| accusative | gap | gapit | gǫp | gǫpin |
| dative | gapi | gapinu | gǫpum | gǫpunum |
| genitive | gaps | gapsins | gapa | gapanna |
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References[edit]
- gap in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
- gap in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.
