different between gap vs quarrel

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kw??(?)l/
• (US) enPR: 'kwôr?l, 'kw?r?l, IPA^(key): /?kw???l/, /?kw?-/
• Rhymes: -???l
• Hyphenation: quar?rel

Etymology 1

From Middle English querele (“altercation, dispute; argument, debate; armed combat; trial by combat; basis for dispute, complaint; claim, legal suit; a lament; illness”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman querele [and other forms] and Middle French querele, querelle (“altercation, dispute; basis for dispute; side in a dispute; complaint; accusation; legal suit; lament; problem”) (modern French querelle), and from their etymon Latin quer?la, querella (“dispute; argument; complaint, grievance; legal complaint; lament; illness”), from quer? + -?la, -ella (suffix forming nouns). Quer? is the present active infinitive of queror (“to complain; to bewail, lament; to be indignant”), from Proto-Indo-European *?wes- (“to puff; to sigh”).

The word had replaced Old English sacan (“basis for dispute”) by 1340.

Noun

quarrel (plural quarrels)

1. A dispute or heated argument (especially one that is verbal).

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dispute
2. Often preceded by a form of to have: a basis or ground of dispute or objection; a complaint; also, a feeling or situation of ill will and unhappiness caused by this.
3. (rare) A propensity to quarrel; quarrelsomeness.

Alternative forms

• quarrell (obsolete)

Related terms

• querent

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English querelen (“to dispute, quarrel; to assert one's claims; to rebel”) [and other forms], from querele (noun); see etymology 1. Compare Anglo-Norman, Middle French, and Old French quereler, quereller (“to argue with, dispute; to criticize; to bring a legal suit”) (modern French quereller (“to quarrel, squabble”)).

Verb

quarrel (third-person singular simple present quarrels, present participle (UK) quarrelling or (US) quarreling, simple past and past participle (UK) quarrelled or (US) quarreled)

1. (intransitive, also figuratively) To argue fiercely; to contend; to squabble; to cease to be on friendly terms, to fall out.
2. (intransitive) To find fault; to cavil.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) Followed by at: to disagree with; to take offence.
4. (transitive, obsolete except Scotland) To argue or squabble with (someone).

Conjugation

Alternative forms

• quarrell (obsolete)

Derived terms

• quarreler, quarreller
• quarrelsome

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English quarrel (“bolt for an arbalest, crossbow, or siege engine; (figurative) seductive glance, temptation to sin; needle (possibly one square in cross-section); small (perhaps square-shaped) opening in window tracery; a cushion (perhaps square-shaped)”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman quarel, quarele, quarrel, Middle French quarrel, and Old French quarel, quarrel, carrel (“crossbow bolt; floor tile or paving stone (rectangular- or square-shaped); small glass pane for windows”) (modern French carreau (“crossbow bolt; a tile; windowpane; a square”)), from Late Latin quarellus, quadrellus (“crossbow bolt; paving stone; a tile”), from Latin quadrum (“a square; square section; regular shape or form”) + -ellus (variant of -ulus (suffix forming diminutive nouns, indicating small size or youth)). Quadrum is ultimately derived from quattuor (“four”), from Proto-Indo-European *k?etwóres (“four”).

Noun

quarrel (countable and uncountable, plural quarrels)

1. (countable, archery, historical) An arrow or bolt for a crossbow or an arbalest (“a late, large type of crossbow”), traditionally with the head square in its cross section.

   Synonyms: (obsolete) carrel, quarry
2. (countable, architecture) A diamond- or square-shaped piece of glass forming part of a lattice window.

   Synonym: quarry

3. (countable, Northern England, architecture) A square tile; a quarry tile; (uncountable) such tiles collectively.

   Synonym: (archaic) quarry

4. (countable, obsolete, rare) A cutting tool or chisel with a diamond- or square-shaped end.
5. (countable, architecture, obsolete) A small square-shaped opening in window tracery.

Related terms

• quarl
• quarry

Translations

References

Further reading

• quarrel (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• crossbow bolt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia