gap
/ɡæp/ · noun
Meaning
- An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
- An opening allowing passage or entrance.
- An opening that implies a breach or defect.
- A vacant space or time.
- A hiatus, a pause in something which is otherwise continuous.
- A vacancy, deficit, absence, or lack.
- To notch, as a sword or knife.
- To make an opening in; to breach.
- To check the size of a gap.
- To leave suddenly.
- An elected head of a gewog in Bhutan.
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