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Synonyms for gap
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  1. gapnoun

    Synonyms:
    hole, clearing, rip, opening, fissure, chasm, break, pass, rift, split, window, neck, col, tear

  2. gapnoun

    An opening that implies a breach or defect.

    There is a gap between the roof and the gutter.

    Synonyms:
    space

  3. gapnoun

    A hiatus.

    I'm taking a gap.

    Synonyms:
    hiatus

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. gap, spreadnoun

    a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures

    "gap between income and outgo"; "the spread between lending and borrowing costs"

    Synonyms:
    bedcover, spreading, spread head, cattle ranch, counterpane, banquet, facing pages, spread, crack, interruption, cattle farm, break, bedspread, scatter, bed covering, spreadhead, feast, disruption, bed cover, opening, paste, ranch, col

  2. opening, gapnoun

    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"

    Synonyms:
    possibility, opening night, chess opening, spread, curtain raising, opening move, hatchway, crack, scuttle, interruption, initiative, disruption, opening, possible action, first step, orifice, col, break, porta

  3. gap, cracknoun

    a narrow opening

    "he opened the window a crack"

    Synonyms:
    go, quip, cracking, fracture, whirl, fling, spread, sally, crack, crack cocaine, fissure, wisecrack, interruption, pass, break, tornado, cleft, offer, snap, crevice, chap, disruption, opening, cranny, scissure, col, shot

  4. col, gapnoun

    a pass between mountain peaks

    Synonyms:
    col, interruption, crack, opening, spread, disruption, break

  5. gapnoun

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

    Synonyms:
    break, interruption, col, opening, crack, spread, disruption

  6. break, interruption, disruption, gapverb

    an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity

    "it was presented without commercial breaks"; "there was a gap in his account"

    Synonyms:
    disturbance, commotion, jailbreak, respite, happy chance, crack, interruption, rift, intermission, break of serve, severance, falling out, prisonbreak, suspension, recess, faulting, breakout, flutter, hoo-hah, geological fault, hurly burly, spread, col, to-do, break, good luck, breaking, disruption, open frame, gaolbreak, dislocation, breach, breakage, perturbation, fault, pause, shift, fracture, time out, kerfuffle, opening, rupture, hoo-ha, prison-breaking

  7. gap, breachverb

    make an opening or gap in

    Synonyms:
    violate, breach, infract, offend, break, go against, transgress

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. diastema

    a gap in between teeth

    Submitted by rinat on September 10, 2019  

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. gapnoun

    Synonyms:
    cleft, crevice, opening, chink, cranny, crack, interstice, breach, rift, break, hiatus

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. gapnoun

    Synonyms:
    hiatus, rift, crevice, rent, interstice, chasm, opening

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How to use gap in a sentence?

  1. Sean Reardon:

    If we want to improve educational opportunities and learning for students, we want to get them out of these schools of high-concentrated poverty, part of the reason why we have a big achievement gap is that minority students are concentrated in high-poverty schools, and those schools are the schools that seem systematically to provide lower educational opportunities.

  2. Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur:

    It is estimated that to address our infrastructure deficit, we require about $1.5 billion per annum over the next decade, it is a huge challenge because the public sector budget will not be able to generate the required funds to close that funding gap so we need support from the private sector, hence the government's emphasis on the PPP concept (private-public partnerships).

  3. Natalie Robehmed:

    I think that really speaks to the wider Hollywood pay gap. It is a lot more difficult for women to get the kind of roles that they would earn massive profits on the back end of in comparison to male actors.

  4. Taro Kono:

    What I’ve been saying about an exit from nuclear power is decommissioning quickly nuclear power plants that are reaching retirement and gradually exiting nuclear energy, as I explained before, we should stop the use of coal, increase energy conservation and renewable energy and nuclear power can be used to fill the gap.

  5. Ken Williford:

    Once a rover gets close enough to a location, we get ground-scale images that we can compare to orbital images, with Ingenuity, we now have this intermediate-scale imagery that nicely fills the gap in resolution.


Translations for gap

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  • فراغArabic
  • otvorCzech
  • Spalt, Spalte, Ritz, RitzeGerman
  • κενόGreek
  • brechaSpanish
  • lõhe, praguEstonian
  • sola, aukkopaikka, merkki, tarkistaa, aukko, tehdäFinnish
  • trouée, trouer, solution de continuité, entailler, écart, brèche, colFrench
  • hézagHungarian
  • fessura, passaggio, buco, interruzione, spazio vuoto, breccia, aperturaItalian
  • 間隙Japanese
  • mokorawhāMāori
  • lomme, åpning, luke, gap, tomrom, mellomrom, spalteNorwegian
  • szpara, dziura, przerwa, szczelina, okienkoPolish
  • brecha, fendaPortuguese
  • проло́м, уще́лье, прохо́д, дыра́, люфт, интерва́л, окно́, щель, промежу́ток, брешь, переры́в, зазо́р, разры́вRussian
  • mwanyaSwahili
  • khoảng cachVietnamese
  • isikhalaZulu

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