gap

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

fessura

apertura

breccia

spazio

buca

🕳️

mancanza

buco

🕳️

precipizio

spazio vuoto

intervallo

lacuna

gap

abisso

baratro

passaggio

interruzione

interstizio

salto

gioco

voragine

divario

asticciola

spezzatura

fosse

opera incompleta

intervallo .

errore

finestra

🪟

fossa

fosso

giogo

metà

parte

sella

vuoto

crepa

crepaccio

falla

🕳️

fenditura

foro

frattura

intercapedine

nicchia

pertugio

🕳️

scissura

spaccatura

sinonimi

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

Traduzioni

Lücke

Spalt

brèche

Kluft

fossé

fenda

brecha

brecha

trou

🕳️

espace

κενό

Spalte

Riss

άνοιγμα

Bresche

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ɡæp/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: gap

Affine danese: gab

Affine inglese antico: 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.