gap

noun

1. An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.

   “He made a gap in the fence by kicking at a weak spot.”

2. An opening allowing passage or entrance.

   “We can slip through that gap between the buildings.”

3. An opening that implies a breach or defect.

   “There is a gap between the roof and the gutter.”

4. A vacant space or time.

   “I have a gap in my schedule next Tuesday.”

5. A hiatus, a pause in something which is otherwise continuous.

   “I'm taking a gap.”

   “You must wait for a gap in the traffic before crossing the road.”

6. A vacancy, deficit, absence, or lack.

   “Their departure has left a gap in the workforce.”

   “Find words to fill the gaps in an incomplete sentence.”

   “She has a gap in her teeth.”

   “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.”

   “But there is a wide gap between the dollars being invested in creators and the respect that is paid to them. It is time to take influencers seriously.”

7. A mountain or hill pass.

   “The exploring party went through the high gap in the mountains.”

8. 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.”

9. The regions between the outfielders.

   “Jones doubled through the gap.”

10. (Australia)The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will pay to the service provider and the scheduled fee for the item.

    “Under bulk billing the patient does not pay a gap, and the medical practitioner receives 85% of the scheduled fee.”

11. (Australia, literary, usually)The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities with regard to life expectancy, education, health, etc.
12. An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment.
13. (euphemistic, slang)The vagina.
14. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of gup (“elected head of a gewog in Bhutan”).
15. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of guilty anticipated plea.

verb

1. (transitive)To notch, as a sword or knife.
2. (transitive)To make an opening in; to breach.
3. (transitive)To check the size of a gap.

   “I gapped all the spark plugs in my car, but then realized I had used the wrong manual and had made them too small.”

4. (especially, intransitive, slang, transitive)To surpass (someone or something) by a considerable margin.

   “Honestly K&C could release today with like a bit more SOT buffs and they'd probably still gap a lot of the game”

   “sometimes dril gets absolutely gapped by average ukraine war reddit comments”

   “Imagine street racing someone then suddenly both of you get gapped by a slammed tiger tank 😂 AKA der "Drippenwagen"”

   “"Not really the reason his team lost" is still not showing up by Chovy's standarts. Like in a way you're downplaying how good this guy has been domestically the last 3-4 years. He is comfortably the best player in the league and is utterly gapping every other midlaner in the league series after series, year after year.”

   “My sports car gets gapped by families of 5 in these all the time and they don't even know we're racing”

5. (New-Zealand, slang)To leave suddenly.

   “[Article title:] 'They've just gapped it': Duo fled quarantine authorities after gang funeral”

6. (intransitive)To fall or spill open so as to leave a gap.

   “The robe gaps open at the waist, breasts spilling out of a lacy bra that looks like she might have had it since her college days.”

7. (US, dated, intransitive, slang, transitive)To stare or gape.

   “Well, dey would all begin stretchin' and gappin', and den some of dem would say, with a gap and another stretch: […]”

name

1. A town, the capital of the department of Hautes-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
2. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of Great Ape Project.