Meaning of Gap | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Initialism of Great Ape Project.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
2. An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
3. A town, the capital of the department of Hautes-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
4. An opening allowing passage or entrance.
5. An opening that implies a breach or defect.
6. A vacant space or time.
7. A hiatus, a pause in something which is otherwise continuous.
8. A vacancy, deficit, absence, or lack.
9. A mountain or hill pass.
10. A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
11. The regions between the outfielders.
12. The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will pay to the service provider and the scheduled fee for the item.
    Australia
13. The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities with regard to life expectancy, education, health, etc.
    Australia, literary, usually
14. An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment.
15. The vagina.
    euphemistic, slang

Equivalents

Examples

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

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

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

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

“I'm taking a gap.”

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

“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.”

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

“At Birling Gap we can stop and go have a picnic on the beach.”

“Jones doubled through the gap.”

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

CEFR level