A gap is the space between two things. It can be physical (like "the gap between your two front teeth") or philosophical (like "the generation gap" between you and your parents).
An opening in anything made by breaking or parting;
Noun
an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity; "it was presented without commercial breaks"
Noun
a narrow opening; "he opened the window a crack"
Noun
a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures; "gap between income and outgo"; "the spread between lending and borrowing costs"
Noun
a pass between mountain peaks
Noun
an open or empty space in or between things; "there was a small opening between the trees"; "the explosion made a gap in the wall"
Verb
make an opening or gap in
n.
An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap
in a fence; 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.
v. t.
To notch, as a sword or knife.
v. t.
To make an opening in; to breach.
Gap
Miseries ensued by the opening of that gap.
It would make a great gap in your own honor.
Gap
Their masses are gapp'd with our grape.
An opening in anything made by breaking or parting;
To notch, as a sword or knife.
Usage Examples
If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the house husband. I'm a strong believer that a good relationship can work, whatever the situation.
Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.
If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.
I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part.
During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.
As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away.
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Other Usage ExamplesBut with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!
I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.
Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.
I'm fed up with the idiots... the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies.
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