gap
/ɡæp/ noun B1- An opening in anything, made by breaking or parting. · He made a gap in the fence by kicking at a weak spot.
- An opening allowing passage or entrance. · We can slip through that gap between the buildings.
- An opening that implies a breach or defect. · There is a gap between the roof and the gutter.
- A vacant space or time. · I have a gap in my schedule next Tuesday.
- A hiatus, a pause in something which is otherwise continuous. · I'm taking a gap.· You must wait for a gap in the traffic before crossing the road.
- A vacancy, deficit, absence, or lack. · Their departure has left a gap in the workforce.· Find words to fill the gaps in an incomplete sentence.
- A mountain or hill pass. · The exploring party went through the high gap in the mountains.
- A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names). · At Birling Gap we can stop and go have a picnic on the beach.
Plural gaps
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“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.
There are a dozen specimens in the market at the present moment which fill gaps in my collection, and which I am unable to purchase for want of a few hundred pounds.
With five volumes you could just fill that gap on that second shelf.
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