Synonyms for gaps
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : gap |
| Phonetic Transcription : gæp |
Top 10 synonyms for gaps Other synonyms for the word gaps
- aperture
- arroyo
- blank
- caesura
- canyon
- cleft
- clove
- cranny
- crevice
- defile
- discontinuity
- fracture
- gorge
- gulch
- gully
- hiatus
- hollow
- inconsistency
- interlude
- intermission
- interruption
- interspace
- interstice
- interval
- lacuna
- lull
- notch
- opening
- orifice
- pause
- ravine
- recess
- rent
- respite
- rest
- rift
- rupture
- separation
- slit
- slot
- space
- vacuity
- void
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for gaps
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