different between gap vs gash

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: gap, IPA^(key): /?æp/
• Rhymes: -æp

Etymology 1

From Middle English gap, gappe, a borrowing from Old Norse gap (“an empty space, gap, chasm”), related to Danish gab (“an expanse, space, gap”), Old English ?eap (“open space, expanse”), Old Norse gapa (“to gape”); compare gape.

Noun

gap (plural gaps)

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.

   (see also gap-toothed)
7. A mountain or hill pass.

8. (Sussex) A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).

9. (baseball) The regions between the outfielders.

10. (Australia, for a medical or pharmacy item) The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will pay to the service provider and the scheduled fee for the item.
    • 2008, Eileen Willis, Louise Reynolds, Helen Keleher, Understanding the Australian Health Care System, page 5,

      Under bulk billing the patient does not pay a gap, and the medical practitioner receives 85% of the scheduled fee.

11. (Australia) (usually written as "the gap") The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities with regard to life expectancy, education, health, etc.
12. (genetics) An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment.

Synonyms

• (opening made by breaking or parting): break, hole, rip, split, tear, rift, chasm, fissure
• (opening allowing passage or entrance): break, clearing, hole, opening; see also Thesaurus:hole
• (opening that implies a breach or defect): space
• (vacant space or time): break, space, window; see also Thesaurus:interspace or Thesaurus:interim
• (hiatus): hiatus; see also Thesaurus:pause
• (mountain pass): col, neck, pass
• (in baseball):

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• gapless
• gap-toothed
• mind the gap
• Scots' Gap
• Watford Gap

Related terms

• bridge the gap
• gap year
• stand in the gap

Translations

Verb

gap (third-person singular simple present gaps, present participle gapping, simple past and past participle gapped)

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. (New Zealand, slang) To leave suddenly.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

gap (plural gaps)

1. Alternative form of gup (elected head of a gewog in Bhutan)

Anagrams

• AGP, APG, GPA, PAG, PGA, Pag

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

Verb

gap

1. first-person singular present indicative of gappen
2. imperative of gappen

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English gap. Related to gapen, gaap, jaap.

Noun

gap n (plural gappen, diminutive gapje n)

1. (business) gap

   Synonyms: gat, kloof

French

Noun

gap m (plural gaps)

1. (chemistry) gap
2. gap (difference)

Garo

Noun

gap

1. snail

Icelandic

Etymology

Back-formation from gapa (“to open one's mouth wide; to yawn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?p/
• Rhymes: -a?p

Noun

gap n (genitive singular gaps, nominative plural göp)

1. gap, opening

   Synonyms: op, rifa, glufa

Declension

Indonesian

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ap/
• Hyphenation: gap

Noun

gap

1. beating, the sound of action by which someone or something is beaten.

   Synonym: degap

Etymology 2

From English gap, from Middle English gap, gappe, a borrowing from Old Norse gap (“an empty space, gap, chasm”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ap/
• Hyphenation: gap

Noun

gap

1. gap,
   1. an opening in anything.

      Synonym: celah

   2. the disparity between communities with regard to life expectancy, education, health, etc.

      Synonym: kesenjangan

Further reading

• “gap” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

gap

1. imperative of gape

Old Norse

Etymology

Presumably from gapa (“to gape”).

Pronunciation

• (12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /???p/

Noun

gap n (genitive gaps, plural g?p)

1. gap, empty space
   • V?luspá, verse 3, lines 7-8, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 1:

     […] gap var ginnunga, / en gras hvergi.

     […] gap was of void, / but grass nowhere.

2. (figuratively) shouting, crying, gab
   • Haralds saga herdráða 64, in 1868, C. R. Unger, G. Vigfússon, Flateyjarbok. Udg. efter offentlig foranstaltning, Volume 3. Christiania, page 425:

     […] þar uar suo mikit hareyste og gap […]

     […] there was so much noise and gab […]

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

References

• gap in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gap in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
• gap in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ap/

Noun

gap m pers

1. (usually in the plural, derogatory) gawker, gaper, mindless onlooker, rubbernecker

   Synonym: gapowicz

Usage notes

• Because this word inflects as if it contained a terminal [p?], which no longer exists in Polish and cannot be represented in Polish orthography, the nominative singular form is in practice used only as a lemma in dictionaries. Most native speakers only recognize this word in its inflected forms.

Declension

Noun

gap f

1. genitive plural of gapa

Verb

gap

1. second-person singular imperative of gapi?

Further reading

• gap in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• gap in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse gap

Noun

gap n

1. chasm or abyss
2. gap; an opening that implies a breach or defect.
3. a mouth, especially when wide open
4. the space between the jaws of a wrench

Declension

Related terms

Anagrams

• Apg., p.g.a., pga

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

Alteration of older garsh, from Middle English garsen, from Old French garser, jarsier (Modern French gercer), from Vulgar Latin *charax?re, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kharakt?r, “engraver”).

Alternative forms

• garsh (dated)

Noun

gash (countable and uncountable, plural gashes)

1. A deep cut.
   • 2006, New York Times, “Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers”, [1]:

     Vowing that he was “never going to forget the lessons of that day,” President Bush paid tribute last night to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack, laying wreaths at ground zero, attending a prayer service at St. Paul’s Chapel and making a surprise stop at a firehouse and a memorial museum overlooking the vast gash in the ground where the twin towers once stood.

2. (slang, vulgar) A vulva.
   • 1959, William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, 50th anniversary edition (2009), p. 126:

     “Oh Gertie it’s true. It’s all true. They’ve got a horrid gash instead of a thrilling thing.”

3. (slang, offensive) A woman
   • 1934, James T. Farrell, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, Ch. 19:

     "Will you bastards quit singing the blues? You're young, and there's plenty of gash in the world, and the supply of moon goes on forever," Simonsky said.

4. (slang, British Royal Navy) Rubbish, spare kit
5. (slang) Rubbish on board an aircraft
6. (slang) Unused film or sound during film editing
7. (slang) Poor quality beer, usually watered down.

Translations

Adjective

gash (comparative more gash, superlative most gash)

1. (slang) Of poor quality; makeshift; improvised; temporary; substituted.

Verb

gash (third-person singular simple present gashes, present participle gashing, simple past and past participle gashed)

1. To make a deep, long cut; to slash.

Translations

Etymology 2

From ghastful, by association with gash.

Adjective

gash (comparative more gash, superlative most gash)

1. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) ghastly; hideous

Related terms

• gashful
• gashly

Anagrams

• HAGS, hags, shag