different between gap vs lip

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

Etymology

From Middle English lippe, from Old English lippa, lippe (“lip”), from Proto-West Germanic *lippj? (“lip”), from Proto-Germanic *lepô, from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely, droop, sag”). Cognate with West Frisian lippe (“lip”), Dutch lip (“lip”), German Lippe and Lefze (“lip”), Swedish läpp (“lip”), Norwegian leppe (“lip”), Latin labium (“lip”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: l?p, IPA^(key): /l?p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

lip (countable and uncountable, plural lips)

2. (countable) Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.

   Synonym: labium

3. (countable) A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.

   Synonym: labium
4. (by extension, countable) The projecting rim of an open container; a short open spout.

   Synonyms: edge, rim, spout

5. (slang, uncountable) Backtalk; verbal impertinence.

   Synonyms: backchat, cheek (informal), impudence, rudeness
6. The edge of a high spot of land.
   • 1894, David Livingstone, A Popular Account of Dr Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries, Chapter VII

   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 12
7. The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
8. (botany) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
9. (botany) The distinctive petal of the Orchis family.
10. (zoology) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.
11. (music, colloquial) Embouchure: the condition or strength of a wind instrumentalist's lips.

Meronyms

• (fleshy protrusion): philtrum, Cupid's bow, vermilion, commissure

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

lip (third-person singular simple present lips, present participle lipping, simple past and past participle lipped)

1. (transitive) To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).
   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene 5,^[1]

     […] a hand that kings

     Have lipp’d and trembled kissing.

   • 1826, Winthrop Mackworth Praed, “Josephine” in The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 16, No. 63, March 1826, p. 308,^[2]

     Our love was like the bright snow-flakes,

     Which melt before you pass,

     Or the bubble on the wine which breaks

     Before you lip the glass;

   • 1901, Robert W. Chambers, Cardigan, New York: Harper, 1902, Chapter 9, p. 130,^[3]

     Once […] at dawn, I heard a bull-moose lipping tree-buds, and lay still in my blanket while the huge beast wandered past, crack! crash! and slop! slop!through the creek […]

   • 1929, William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, New York: Vintage, 1956, “June Second 1910,” p. 144,^[4]

     […] in a quick swirl the trout lipped a fly beneath the surface with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut.

2. (transitive, figuratively) (of something inanimate) To touch lightly.
   • 1971, Iris Murdoch, An Accidental Man, New York: Viking, p. 405,^[5]

     He moved the boat onward very slowly, lipping the glossy surface delicately with the light oars.

3. (intransitive, transitive) To wash against a surface, lap.
   • 1898, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Tragedy of the Korosko, London: Smith, Elder & Co., Chapter 10, p. 324,^[6]

     It was very soothing and restful up there on the saloon deck, with no sound but the gentle lipping of the water as it rippled against the sides of the steamer.

   • 1922, John Masefield, The Dream, London: Heinemann, p. 9,^[7]

     So on I went, and by my side, it seemed,

     Paced a great bull, kept from me by a brook

     Which lipped the grass about it as it streamed

     Over the flagroots that the grayling shook;

   • 2008, Julie Czerneda, Riders of the Storm, New York: Daw Books, Interlude, p. 406,^[8]

     The mist that lipped against the wall behind him hung overhead like a ceiling, hiding any stars.

4. (intransitive) To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something.
   • 1903, Robert Barr, Over the Border, London: Isbister, Book 4, Chapter 7, p. 375,^[9]

     Below, the swollen Eden, lipping full from bank to bank, rolled yellow and surly to the sea.

   • 1911, Charles G. D. Roberts, Neighbors Unknown, U.S. edition, New York: Macmillan, “Mothers of the North,” p. 256,^[10]

     The rest of the herd were grouped so close to the water’s edge that from time to time a lazy, leaden-green swell would come lipping up and splash them.

   • 1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, New York: Viking, Chapter Twenty-Two, p. 410,^[11]

     The sun lipped over the mountain by now, shone on the corrugated-iron roofs of the five sanitary units, shone on the gray tents and on the swept ground of the streets between the tents.

   • 1973, Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills, New York: William Morrow, Book I, Chapter 3, p. 26,^[12]

     Above the spring the little statue of the god Myrddin, he of the winged spaces of the air, stared from between the ferns. Beneath his cracked wooden feet the water bubbled and dripped into the stone basin, lipping over into the grass below.

5. (transitive) To form the rim, edge or margin of something.
   • 1894, Fiona Macleod, Pharais, Derby, Chapter 4, p. 88,^[13]

     […] old Macrae, of Adrfeulan Farm near by, had caused rude steps to be cut in the funnel-like hollow rising sheer up from the sloping ledge that lipped the chasm and reached the summit of the scaur.

   • 1920, W. E. B. Du Bois, Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Howe, Chapter 9, p. 242,^[14]

     It was a tiny stone house whose front window lipped the passing sidewalk where ever tramped the feet of black soldiers marching home.

   • 1924, James Oliver Curwood, A Gentleman of Courage, New York: Cosmopolitan, Chapter 3, p. 36,^[15]

     The woman had slipped to the very edge of the rock—the edge that lipped the fury of the Pit. She was half over. And she was slipping—slipping....

6. (transitive) To utter verbally.
   • 1818, John Keats, Endymion, London: Taylor & Hessey, Book I, lines 964-965, p. 48,^[16]

     Salt tears were coming, when I heard my name

     Most fondly lipp’d […]

7. (transitive) To simulate speech by moving the lips without making any sound; to mouth.
   • 1887, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders, Chapter 46,^[17]

     “Ah, I thought my memory didn’t deceive me!” he lipped silently.

   • 1980, Cyril Dabydeen, “Mammita’s Garden Cove” in Caribbean New Wave: Contemporary Short Stories, London: Heinemann, 1990, p. 65,^[18]

     And as he read, lipping the words, he thought of his own boyhood […]

8. (sports) To make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.
   • 1910, Fred M. White, “A Record Round,” The Windsor Magazine, March 1910,^[19]

     “I shall find the ball to the left of a patch of sword grass near the hole,” he said. “My second will lip the hole, I know it as well as if I could see the whole thing.”

   • 1999, J. M. Gregson, Malice Aforethough, Sutton: Severn House, Chapter Nine, p. 112,^[20]

     Lambert just missed his three; his putt lipped the hole before finishing two feet past it.

9. (transitive, music) To change the sound of (a musical note played on a wind instrument) by moving or tensing the lips.

Translations

Anagrams

• LPI, PIL

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch lip, from Middle Dutch leppe, with influence of Middle Low German lippe, from Old Dutch leppa, from Proto-West Germanic *lippj?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?p/

Noun

lip (plural lippe, diminutive lippie)

1. lip (part of the mouth)

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch leppe, with influence of Middle Low German lippe, from Old Dutch leppa, from Proto-West Germanic *lippj?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?p/
• Hyphenation: lip
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

lip f (plural lippen, diminutive lipje n)

1. lip (part of the mouth)
2. lip (of a container)

Related terms

• lipklank
• liplezen
• lippen
• lippendienst
• lippenrood
• lippenstift
• lipvis
• loslippig
• bovenlip
• onderlip
• schaamlip

Descendants

• Afrikaans: lip

Anagrams

• pil

Gallo

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

lip ? (plural lips)

1. lip

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *l??p?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lip/, [l?ip]

Noun

lip m (diminutive lipk)

1. glue, birdlime

Declension

Derived terms

• lipa?

Verb

lip

1. second-person singular imperative of lipa?

Alternative forms

• lipaj

Further reading

• lip in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• lip in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Min Nan

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?ip/

Noun

lip f

1. genitive plural of lipa

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ekavian): l?p
• (Ijekavian): lij?p

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *l?p?.

Adjective

lip (Cyrillic spelling ???)

1. (Chakavian, Ikavian) nice, pretty
   • 1375, N.N., Muka svete Margarite (transribed from Glagolitic original):

     Pasite se, ovce mile,

     sve ste lipe, sve ste bile

   • 1501, Marko Maruli?, Judita:

     Tad se us?udiše svi, vidiv Juditu,

     toko lipa biše i u takovu svitu.

   • 1759, Antun Kanižli?, Sveta Rožalija:

     Ovog zaru?nika, lipa, mila, sri?na,

     imati jest dika, sri?a, radost vi?na.

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English leaf

Noun

lip

1. leaf