gap
/ɡæp/ verb C2- To notch, as a sword or knife.
- To make an opening in; to breach.
- To check the size of a gap. · I gapped all the spark plugs in my car, but then realized I had used the wrong manual and had made them too small.
- To surpass (someone or something) by a considerable margin.
- To leave suddenly.
- To fall or spill open so as to leave a gap.
- Of an electric train, to be positioned, or to cause to be positioned, between electrical pickup points, causing loss of power. · The lights flickered as the train momentarily gapped.· The train was gapped just outside the station, and passengers were stranded for nearly two hours.
He/she/it gaps · Past gapped · Past participle gapped · -ing form gapping
Verb forms
- Base form
- gap
- He/she/it
- gaps
- Past
- gapped
- Past participle
- gapped
- -ing form
- gapping
From the library
“It fills up a gap which I had been unable to bridge in this most complex affair.
Finally, his eyes came round to the fresh and smiling face of Billy, the young but very wise and tactful page, who had helped a little to fill up the gap of loneliness and isolation which surrounded the saturnine figure of the great detective.
With five volumes you could just fill that gap on that second shelf.
“I have not seen a man who, if he turns his talents that way, was more calculated to fill the gap left by the illustrious Moriarty.
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