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Gap   /gæp/   Listen
noun
Gap  n.  
1.
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. "Miseries ensued by the opening of that gap." "It would make a great gap in your own honor."
2.
(Aeronautics) The vertical distance between two superposed surfaces, esp. in a biplane.
Gap lathe (Mach.), a turning lathe with a deep notch in the bed to admit of turning a short object of large diameter.
To stand in the gap, to expose one's self for the protection of something; to make defense against any assailing danger; to take the place of a fallen defender or supporter.
To stop a gap, to secure a weak point; to repair a defect.



verb
Gap  v. t.  
1.
To notch, as a sword or knife.
2.
To make an opening in; to breach. "Their masses are gapp'd with our grape."






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"Gap" Quotes from Famous Books



... returned to the Manor, however, peace seemed to forsake him. The horrible gap, ever-widening, between himself and Desmond might, indeed, be bridged by prayer, but not by the shouts of boys and the turmoil ...
— The Hill - A Romance of Friendship • Horace Annesley Vachell

... northward, and there I saw what appeared to me a high land, covered with towers, and houses, and church-steeples, with trees and rocks on either side. Under the land, however, appeared a thin line of water, and dividing it a broad gap, as it were the mouth of some wide river or fiord; but what most attracted my attention was an inverted ship, which appeared above ...
— Peter the Whaler • W.H.G. Kingston

... young sculptor, and taking his chisel, with a few strokes he made such a gap in the mouth as no master could ...
— Historic Boyhoods • Rupert Sargent Holland

... not unless it be what is sometimes put down as Mt. Okana on the French maps, had a conical shape which contrasted beautifully with the more irregular curves of its companions. The colour down this gap was superb, and very Japanese in the evening glow. The more distant peaks were soft gray-blues and purples, those nearer, indigo and black. We soon passed this lovely scene and entered the walled-in channel, creeping ...
— Travels in West Africa • Mary H. Kingsley

... exception of a small squad, a part of which were still holding their trees in a small space in the dam, where the current had not been checked, and the other part bringing stones, till they had confined the trees down to the bottom, so that they would not be swept away. This task of filling the gap, however, after some severe struggling with the current, was before long accomplished; when those engaged upon it joined in the common work, in which they steadily persevered till this second double layer of trees, with the large quantities of short bushes ...
— Gaut Gurley • D. P. Thompson


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