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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).

Gap is a small word that packs a lot; it can be used in a straightforward manner: in England, the signs in the subway station say, "Mind the gap" — in hopes that passengers will not wander into the space between the train and the platform. The American retailer, "The Gap," is said to have taken its name from the generation gap. The clothes were designed for teenagers and young adults, and therefore nothing your middle-aged parents would be caught dead in. Times change.

DEFINITIONS OF: gap

n an open or empty space in or between things

“the explosion made a gap in the wall”

Synonyms:: opening

Examples:: Denali Fault
a major open geological fault in Alaska; San Andreas Fault
a major geological fault in California; runs from San Diego to San Francisco; the source of serious earthquakes

Types:: show 36 types...; hide 36 types...; pocket
an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck; diastema
a gap or vacant space between two teeth; Ranvier's nodes, nodes of Ranvier
small gaps in the myelin sheath of medullated axons; foramen, hiatus
a natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure; breach
an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification); chasm
a deep opening in the earth's surface; cleft, crack, crevice, fissure, scissure
a long narrow opening; hole
an opening into or through something; mouth
an opening that resembles a mouth (as of a cave or a gorge); rift
a gap between cloud masses; rent, rip, snag, split, tear
an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart; window
an opening that resembles a window in appearance or function; corner pocket
a pocket at the corner of a billiard table; side pocket
a pocket on the side of a billiard table; Monro's foramen, foramen of Monro, interventricular foramen
the small opening (on both the right and left sides) that connects the third ventricle in the diencephalon with the lateral ventricle in the cerebral hemisphere; foramen magnum
the large opening at the base of the cranium through which the spinal cord passes; abysm, abyss
a bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively); aperture
a natural opening in something; bolt-hole
a hole through which an animal may bolt when pursued into its burrow or den; bullet hole
a hole made by a bullet passing through it; chap
a crack in a lip caused usually by cold; chink
a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall; cranny
a small opening or crevice (especially in a rock face or wall); crevasse
a deep fissure; fatigue crack
a crack in metal resulting from metal fatigue; break, fault, faulting, fracture, geological fault, shift
(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other; gulf
a deep wide chasm; leak
an accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape; ozone hole
an area of the ozone layer (near the poles) that is seasonally depleted of ozone; perforation
a hole made in something; rathole
a hole (as in the wall of a building) made by rats; rift
a narrow fissure in rock; slit
a narrow fissure; split
a lengthwise crack in wood; vent, volcano
a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt; knothole
a hole in a board where a knot came out

Type of:: space
an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things)

n a narrow opening

Synonyms:: crack

Types:: blank, lacuna
a blank gap or missing part; spark gap
the gap between two high-potential terminals

Type of:: opening
a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made

n a pass between mountain peaks

Synonyms:: col

Types:: water gap
a pass in a mountain ridge through which a stream flows; wind gap
a pass in a mountain ridge with no stream flowing through it

Type of:: mountain pass, notch, pass
the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks

n a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures

“gap between income and outgo”

Synonyms:: spread

Type of:: disparity
inequality or difference in some respect

n a difference (especially an unfortunate difference) between two opinions or two views or two situations

Types:: generation gap
a difference between the views of young people and their parents

Type of:: conflict, difference, difference of opinion, dispute
a disagreement or argument about something important

n an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity

“there was a gap in his account”

Synonyms:: break, disruption, interruption

Types:: show 5 types...; hide 5 types...; cut-in, insert
(film) a still picture that is introduced and that interrupts the action of a film; cut-in, insert
(broadcasting) a local announcement inserted into a network program; interjection, interpellation, interpolation, interposition
the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts; abruption, breaking off
an instance of sudden interruption; barracking, heckling
shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree

Type of:: delay, holdup
the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time

v make an opening or gap in

Synonyms:: breach

Type of:: open, open up
cause to open or to become open

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