Gaps can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| gap - make an opening or gap in | ||
Noun |
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| gap - a narrow opening; "he opened the window a crack" | ||
| gap - a difference (especially an unfortunate difference) between two opinions or two views or two situations | ||
| gap - a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures; "gap between income and outgo"; "the spread between lending and borrowing costs" | ||
| gap - 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" | ||
| gap - an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity; "it was presented without commercial breaks"; "there was a gap in his account" | ||
| gap - a pass between mountain peaks |
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| 1. | noun | Within this meager GDP, the gaps between rich and poor are beyond belief and too many of the rich made their money not by succeeding in business, but by being corrupt rulers. | |
| 2. | noun | Birth rates in the region are very high, increasing the poverty, the social gaps and the cultural decline. | |
| 3. | noun | Walls keeping water out of the bowl-shaped city have been breached, and emergency teams are using helicopters to drop 1,350kg (3,000lb) sandbags and concrete barriers into the gaps. | |
| 4. | noun | There are gaps between the boards in the box. If you fit them in snugly, you'll get more use out of the box. | |
| 5. | noun | His teeth had gaps. | |
| 6. | noun | There are a lot of gaps in my knowledge of math. | |
| 7. | noun | I'm trying to fill the gaps in my education by taking online courses and reading widely. | |
| 8. | noun | Saturn has at least 53 moons. Some of these moons orbit the planet within the rings, creating gaps in the rings. | |
| 9. | noun | After Tom had filled in his genealogical pedigree chart with the information he already knew, the remaining gaps revealed where he'd need to do some research to complete all his ancestral lines. | |
| 10. | noun | I have a lot of gaps in my knowledge of math. | |
| 11. | noun | The human experience of text translation, with all its difficulty and its trial and error, constitutes an irreplaceable richness. The paths from one mental universe to another, the instructive journeys that flow from it and the gaps that one explores there must not be lost sight of, lest we thereby lose our humanity. | |
| 12. | noun | The report says the biggest gender gaps are seen in the United States and Ireland where 15 percent more girls than boys were physically inactive. | |
| 13. | noun | Before the alarm clocks, people stuck nails into candles to wake up at a specific time. It was even possible to make a snooze function by using multiple nails with short gaps. | |
| 14. | noun | Gap between income and outgo. | |
| 15. | noun | The explosion made a gap in the wall. |
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| Within this meager GDP, the gaps between rich and poor are beyond belief and too many of the rich made their money not by succeeding in business, but by being corrupt rulers. |
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| Birth rates in the region are very high, increasing the poverty, the social gaps and the cultural decline. |
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| Walls keeping water out of the bowl-shaped city have been breached, and emergency teams are using helicopters to drop 1,350kg (3,000lb) sandbags and concrete barriers into the gaps. |
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| There are gaps between the boards in the box. If you fit them in snugly, you'll get more use out of the box. | |
| His teeth had gaps. | |
| There are a lot of gaps in my knowledge of math. | |
| I'm trying to fill the gaps in my education by taking online courses and reading widely. | |
| Saturn has at least 53 moons. Some of these moons orbit the planet within the rings, creating gaps in the rings. | |
| After Tom had filled in his genealogical pedigree chart with the information he already knew, the remaining gaps revealed where he'd need to do some research to complete all his ancestral lines. | |
| I have a lot of gaps in my knowledge of math. | |
| The human experience of text translation, with all its difficulty and its trial and error, constitutes an irreplaceable richness. The paths from one mental universe to another, the instructive journeys that flow from it and the gaps that one explores there must not be lost sight of, lest we thereby lose our humanity. | |
| The report says the biggest gender gaps are seen in the United States and Ireland where 15 percent more girls than boys were physically inactive. | |
| Before the alarm clocks, people stuck nails into candles to wake up at a specific time. It was even possible to make a snooze function by using multiple nails with short gaps. | |
| Gap between income and outgo. |
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| The explosion made a gap in the wall. |
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