Antonyms for gaps

Grammar : Noun

Spell : gap

Phonetic Transcription : gæp

Definition of gaps

Origin : early 14c. (mid-13c. in place names), from Old Norse gap "chasm," related to gapa "to gape," from PIE *ghai- "to yawn, gape" (see yawn (v.)). Originally "hole in a wall or hedge;" broader sense is 16c. In U.S., common in place names in reference to a break or pass in a long mountain chain (especially one that water flows through). As a verb from 1847.

noun break, breach

Example sentences :

How often have the gaps in Theology been concealed from the eye of faith!
Extract from : « Timaeus » by Plato

Are there no contradictions, no gaps in the sequence of ideas?
Extract from : « Introduction to the Study of History » by Charles V. Langlois

History fills up some of its gaps by an accumulation of reasonings.
Extract from : « Introduction to the Study of History » by Charles V. Langlois

We are irresistibly impelled to endeavour to fill up these gaps.
Extract from : « Introduction to the Study of History » by Charles V. Langlois

And far from being filled, these gaps are becoming wider day by day.
Extract from : « England and Germany » by Emile Joseph Dillon

But Lennon good-humouredly helped Carmena to bridge the gaps.
Extract from : « Bloom of Cactus » by Robert Ames Bennet

Another officer was down; there were gaps in the ranks and under feet the wounded.
Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston

There were no sharp breaks in the curve or gaps in the supporting equations.
Extract from : « The K-Factor » by Harry Harrison (AKA Henry Maxwell Dempsey)

There are gaps which we can't fill up, of course, but we're pretty complete.
Extract from : « The Grell Mystery » by Frank Froest

In filling up some of the gaps he might have been preposterously wrong.
Extract from : « The Grell Mystery » by Frank Froest

Synonyms for gaps

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