Word Meanings - GAP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: GAP

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. Knolles. It would make a great gap in your own honor. Shak. Gap lathe , 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. (more info) breach, abyss, Dan. gab mouth, opening, AS. geap expanse; as adj.,

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GAP)

• Aperture
• Opening
• gap
• chasm
• fissure
• cleft
• Breach
• Rupture
• divulsion
• quarrel
• violation
• nonperformance
• Interstice
• Chink
• interval
• interspace
• cranny
• crack
• Interval
• Interim
• meantime
• period
• intermission
• Interspace
• cessation
• space between
• season
• opportunity
• space
• commencement
• initiation
• start
• inauguration
• hole
• chink
• beginning

Related words: (words related to GAP)

• PERIODIC; PERIODICAL
  Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence. Periodic comet , a comet that moves about the sun in an elliptic orbit; a comet that has been seen at two of its approaches to the sun. -- Periodic function , a function whose values
• INTERVALLUM
  An interval. And a' shall laugh without intervallums. Shak. In one of these intervalla. Chillingworth.
• QUARRELING
  Engaged in a quarrel; apt or disposed to quarrel; as, quarreling factions; a quarreling mood. -- Quar"rel*ing*ly, adv.
• INTERIM
  A name given to each of three compromises made by the emperor Charles V. of Germany for the sake of harmonizing the connecting opinions of Protestants and Catholics. (more info) 1. The meantime; time intervening; interval between events, etc. All
• OPENNESS
  The quality or state of being open.
• CLEFTGRAFT
  To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion. Mortimer.
• CRACKAJACK
  1. An individual of marked ability or excellence, esp. in some sport; as, he is a crackajack at tennis. 2. A preparation of popped corn, candied and pressed into small cakes.
• FISSURE
  A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock. Cerebral fissures , the furrows or clefts by which the surface of the cerebrum is divided; esp., the furrows first formed by the infolding of the whole
• STARTLINGLY
  In a startling manner.
• PERIODONTAL
  Surrounding the teeth.
• APERTURE
  The diameter of the exposed part of the object glass of a telescope or other optical instrument; as, a telescope of four-inch aperture. Note: The aperture of microscopes is often expressed in degrees, called also the angular aperture,
• CRACK-BRAINED
  Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope.
• OPEN SEA
  A sea open to all nations. See Mare clausum.
• SPACE
  One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc. -- Space line , a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance
• CRACKER STATE
  Georgia; -- a nickname. See Cracker, n. 5.
• CLEFT
  from Cleave.
• CRACKLE
  To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle. The unknown ice that crackles underneath them. Dryden.
• CRACKLED
  Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.
• STARTFULNESS
  Aptness to start.
• INTERVAL
  Difference in pitch between any two tones. At intervals, coming or happening with intervals between; now and then. "And Miriam watch'd and dozed at intervals." Tennyson. -- Augmented interval , an interval increased by half a step or half a tone.
• PROPENE
  See PROPYLENE
• WIT-CRACKER
  One who breaks jests; a joker. Shak.
• ANTIPERIODIC
  A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.
• ISOCHASMIC
  Indicating equal auroral display; as, an isochasmic line.
• PROPENSE
  Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; as, women propense to holiness. Hooker. -- Pro*pense"ly, adv. -- Pro*pense"ness, n.
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  A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic.
• TWO-CLEFT
  Divided about half way from the border to the base into two segments; bifid.