gap

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

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

Verb

1. (transitive) To notch, as a sword or knife.
2. (transitive) To make an opening in; to breach.
3. (transitive) To check the size of a gap.
4. (especially, intransitive, slang, transitive) To surpass (someone or something) by a considerable margin.
5. (New-Zealand, slang) To leave suddenly.
6. (intransitive) To fall or spill open so as to leave a gap.

Verb

To stare or gape.

Concepts

brèche

fossé

trou

🕳️

espace

fissure

lacune

intervalle

vide

ouverture

col

écart

insuffisance

gouffre

fente

creux

précipice

abîme

privation

trouée

crevasse

décalage

blanc

espace libre

jeu

joint

interstice

manque

rupture

créneau

pause

déficient

fêlure

goulet

lézarde

ravine

Gap

coupure d’itinéraire

lacune législative

lacune juridique

gorge abyssale

breche

solution de continuité

case vide

caniveau

casser

cavité

chance

🎲

cou

coupure

déficit

Synonymes

space

interval

opening

hole

🕳️

breach

crack

break

fissure

distance

crevice

chasm

chink

rift

blank

gorge

slot

cleft

aperture

ravine

interstice

notch

difference

defect

deficiency

flaw

lacuna

shortcoming

hiatus

gulf

shortage

spacing

lack

absence

interruption

abyss

orifice

disparity

spread

want

clearance

air gap

cavity

deficit

rent

fracture

precipice

rupture

mouth

interspace

col

Traductions

Lücke

Spalt

Kluft

fenda

brecha

brecha

κενό

Spalte

fessura

Bresche

χάσμα

opening

άνοιγμα

Riss

Zwischenraum

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ɡæp/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: gap

Appartenant à danois: gab

Appartenant à ancien anglais: ġeap

In summary

From Middle English gap, gappe, from Old Norse gap (“an empty space, gap, chasm”), from gapa (“to gape, scream”), from Proto-Germanic *gapōną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂- (“to open wide, gape”). Related to Danish gab (“an expanse, space, gap”), Old English ġeap (“open space, expanse”); compare English gape.