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gap
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)
- An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
- An opening allowing passage or entrance.
- An opening that implies a breach or defect.
- A vacant space or time.
- A hiatus, a pause in something which is otherwise continuous.
- A vacancy, deficit, absence, or lack.
- (see also gap-toothed)
- A mountain or hill pass.
- (Sussex) A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
- (baseball) The regions between the outfielders.
- (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.
- 2008, Eileen Willis, Louise Reynolds, Helen Keleher, Understanding the Australian Health Care System, page 5,
- (Australia) (usually written as "the gap") The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities with regard to life expectancy, education, health, etc.
- (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)
- (transitive) To notch, as a sword or knife.
- (transitive) To make an opening in; to breach.
- (transitive) To check the size of a gap.
- (New Zealand, slang) To leave suddenly.
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
gap (plural gaps)
- 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
- first-person singular present indicative of gappen
- imperative of gappen
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English gap. Related to gapen, gaap, jaap.
Noun
gap n (plural gappen, diminutive gapje n)
- (business) gap
- Synonyms: gat, kloof
French
Noun
gap m (plural gaps)
- (chemistry) gap
- gap (difference)
Garo
Noun
gap
- 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)
- gap, opening
- Synonyms: op, rifa, glufa
Declension
Indonesian
Etymology 1
Onomatopoeic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??ap/
- Hyphenation: gap
Noun
gap
- 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
- gap,
- an opening in anything.
- Synonym: celah
- the disparity between communities with regard to life expectancy, education, health, etc.
- Synonym: kesenjangan
- an opening in anything.
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
- 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)
- 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.
- 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:
- (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 […]
- Haralds saga herdráða 64, in 1868, C. R. Unger, G. Vigfússon, Flateyjarbok. Udg. efter offentlig foranstaltning, Volume 3. Christiania, page 425:
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
- (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
- genitive plural of gapa
Verb
gap
- 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
- chasm or abyss
- gap; an opening that implies a breach or defect.
- a mouth, especially when wide open
- the space between the jaws of a wrench
Declension
Related terms
Anagrams
- Apg., p.g.a., pga
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trough
English
Etymology
From Middle English trough, trowgh, trow, trou?, trogh, from Old English troh, trog (“a trough, tub, basin, vessel for containing liquids or other materials”), from Proto-Germanic *trug?, *trugaz (compare West Frisian trôch, Dutch trog, German Trog, Swedish tråg), from Proto-Indo-European *dru-kó (compare Middle Irish drochta (“wooden basin”), Old Armenian ?????? (targal, “ladle, spoon”), enlargement of *dóru (“tree”)). More at tree.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /t??f/
- (US) enPR: trôf, IPA(key): /t??f/
- (US, cot–caught merger, Canada) enPR: tr?f, IPA(key): /t??f/
- (US dialectal) enPR: trôth, IPA(key): /t???/; (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /t???/
- Rhymes: -?f
Noun
trough (plural troughs)
- A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
- One of Hank's chores was to slop the pigs' trough each morning and evening.
- Any similarly shaped container.
- 1976, Frederick Bentham, The art of stage lighting (page 233)
- It just clips on the front of the stage without any special trough, has no great power and occupies only one dimmer, […]
- (Australia, New Zealand) A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.
- Ernest threw his paint brushes into a kind of trough he had fashioned from sheet metal that he kept in the sink.
- 1976, Frederick Bentham, The art of stage lighting (page 233)
- A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
- There was a small trough that the sump pump emptied into; it was filled with mosquito larvae.
- (Canada) A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
- The troughs were filled with leaves and needed clearing.
- (agriculture, Australia, New Zealand) A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel.
- A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
- The buoy bobbed between the crests and troughs of the waves moving across the bay.
- The neurologist pointed to a troubling trough in the pattern of his brain-waves.
- (meteorology) A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
Synonyms
- manger (container for feeding animals)
Derived terms
- water trough
Translations
Verb
trough (third-person singular simple present troughs, present participle troughing, simple past and past participle troughed)
- To eat in a vulgar style, as if from a trough.
- He troughed his way through three meat pies.
References
- Oxford English Dictionary Online
See also
- crib
- ditch
- trench
Anagrams
- Rought, rought
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