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Synonyms for gap
gæpgap
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Wiktionary
Princeton's WordNet
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, colopening, 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"
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possibility, opening night, chess opening, spread, curtain raising, opening move, hatchway, crack, scuttle, interruption, initiative, disruption, opening, possible action, first step, orifice, col, break, portagap, cracknoun
a narrow opening
"he opened the window a crack"
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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, shotcol, gapnoun
a pass between mountain peaks
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col, interruption, crack, opening, spread, disruption, breakgapnoun
a difference (especially an unfortunate difference) between two opinions or two views or two situations
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break, interruption, col, opening, crack, spread, disruptionbreak, 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-breakinggap, breachverb
make an opening or gap in
Synonyms:
violate, breach, infract, offend, break, go against, transgress
Editors Contribution
diastema
a gap in between teeth
Submitted by rinat on September 10, 2019
Dictionary of English Synonymes
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "gap":
divide, difference, variance, disparity, discrepancy, loophole, ditch, chasm, gaps, vacuum, lacuna, deficit, deviation, gulf, shortcoming, deficiency, differences, differential, distance, shortfall, abyss, cap, empty, rift, discontinuity, disparities, void, gat, variances, hole, shortcomings, deficiencies, graben, mismatch, lack, deviations, jaap, flaw, lag, variation, divergence, hiatus, inequality, kip, lacunae, wedge, imbalance, fracture, bpa, omission, separation
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GAP
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How to use gap in a sentence?
This book fills a much needed gap.
Everyone in the family had read it and there was something about that article that spoke to me, there’s so much complexity to it: There’s a war element, a love story between Tess and Gil, there’s this idea that, generations later, two girls of these war-torn families can come together to bridge a gap.
It helps us bridge the gap by actually speaking to the practitioners and refining the technology and proposition.
If this implant turns out to work as well as we think it will, it fills a gap in our treatment spectrum for patients who have injuries to their knee.
What's essential for Gap at this moment is that it's injected with a strong point of view, and people pay attention to the brand again, gap knows it can't play it safe and is counting on this big risk translating into a big reward.
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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