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Gap [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. An opening in any thing made by breaking or parting; as a gap in a fence or wall.

2. A breach.

3. Manifold miseries ensued by the opening of that gap to all that side of christendom.

4. Any avenue or passage; way of entrance or departure.

5. A breach; a defect; a flaw; as a gap in honor or reputation.

6. An interstice; a vacuity.

7. A third can fill the gap with laughing.

8. A hiatus; a chasm; as a gap between words.

9. To stop a gap to secure a weak point; to repair a defect.

10. To stand in the gap to expose one's self for the protection of something; to make defense against any assailing danger. Ezekiel 22:30 .

Gap [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or defect; a vacant space or time; a hiatus; a mountain pass.

Gap [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To notch, as a sword or knife.

2. To make an opening in; to breach.

Gap Encyclopedia Britannica

GAP (the ancient Vapincum), a town of France, capital of an arrondissement and also of the department of Hautes Alpes, is situated on the right bank of the Luye, 46 miles S.E. of Grenoble. It stands in a wide valley about 2400 feet above sea-level, and is surrounded by an amphitheatre of hills, over which tower the snow-covered mountains of the Alps. In the vicinity are fine walnut avenues and vineyards, but the town, with the exception of a few modern hou≡es, is badly built and has a somewhat miserable appearance. The chief public buildings are the Gothic cathedral, containing the tomb of the celebrated Constable de Lesdiguières, the court-house, the town-hall, the bishop’s palace, the barracks, and the theatre. In 1866 a statue in black marble was erected in front of the barracks to Baron de Ladoucette, a former prefect of the Hautes Alps. Gap is the seat of a court of primary jurisdiction, and has a communal college, a diocesan seminary, a public library, and a museum of antiquities, natural history, botany, and geology. The manufactures comprise woollen, linen, and silk goods, leather, and dressed skins. In the vicinity are some marble quarries, which were known to the Romans. The town became the seat of a bishopric in the 4th century, and its bishops were for a long period styled princes and counts of Gap. In former times it suffered greatly from the devastations of the Lombards and Moors, from the plague, and from earthquakes; and in 1692 it was almost burned to the ground by Duke Victor Amadeus of Savoy. The population in 1876 was 7249.

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Gap-toothed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having interstices between the teeth.

Gape [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A gaping.

Gape [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To open the mouth wide, from sleepiness, drowsiness or dullness; to yawn.

2. To open the mouth for food, as young birds.

3. To gape for or after, to desire earnestly; to crave; to look and long for; as, men often gape after court favor.

4. The hungry grave for her due tribute gapes.

5. To gape at, in a like sense, is hardly correct.

6. To open in fissures or crevices; as a gaping rock.

7. May that ground gape and swallow me alive.

8. To have a hiatus; as one vowel gaping on another.

9. To open the mouth in wonder or surprise; as the gaping fool; the gaping crowd.

10. To utter sound with open throat.

11. To open the mouth with hope or expectation.

12. To open the mouth with a desire to injure or devour.

13. They have gaped upon me with their mouth. Job 16:10 .

Gape [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of gaping; a yawn.

2. The width of the mouth when opened, as of birds, fishes, etc.

Gape [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To open the mouth wide

2. Expressing a desire for food; as, young birds gape.

3. Indicating sleepiness or indifference; to yawn.

4. To pen or part widely; to exhibit a gap, fissure, or hiatus.

5. To long, wait eagerly, or cry aloud for something; -- with for, after, or at.

Gaped [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Gaper [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One who gapes; a yawner.

2. One who opens his mouth for wonder and stares foolishly.

3. One who longs or craves.

4. A fish with six or seven bands and tail undivided.

Gaper [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who gapes.

2. A European fish. See 4th Comber.

3. A large edible clam (Schizothaerus Nuttalli), of the Pacific coast; -- called also gaper clam.

4. An East Indian bird of the genus Cymbirhynchus, related to the broadbills.

Gapeseed [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Any strange sight.

Gapesing [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Act of gazing about; sightseeing.

Gapeworm [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The parasitic worm that causes the gapes in birds. See Illustration in Appendix.

Gaping [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Opening the mouth wide from sleepiness, dullness, wonder or admiration; yawning; opening in fissures; craving.

Gaping [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Gapingstock [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who is an object of open-mouthed wonder.

Gaptoothed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Having interstices between the teeth.

Incompleteness Roget’s Thesaurus §53

N. incompleteness, deficiency, short # measure, shortcoming, insufficiency, imperfection, immaturity, half measures, defect, deficit, defalcation, omission, caret, shortage, interval, break, noncompletion, missing link, missing piece, missing part, gap, hole, lacuna

V. be incomplete, fall short of, lack, neglect

Adj. incomplete, imperfect, unfinished, uncompleted &c. (see complete ), defective, deficient, wanting, lacking, failing, in default, in arrear, short of, hollow, meager, lame, halfand-half, perfunctory, sketchy, crude, mutilated, garbled, docked, lopped, truncated, in progress, in hand, going on, proceeding

Adv. incompletely, by halves

Phr. caetera desunt, caret

Discontinuity Roget’s Thesaurus §70

N. discontinuity, disjunction, anacoluthon, interruption, break, fracture, flaw, fault, crack, cut, gap, solution of continuity, caesura, broken thread, parenthesis, episode, rhapsody, patchwork, intermission, alternation, dropping fire

V. be discontinuous, alternate, intermit, sputter, stop and start, hesitate, discontinue, pause, interrupt, intervene, break, break in upon, break off, interpose, break the thread, snap the thread, disconnect, dissever

Adj. discontinuous, unsuccessive, broken, interrupted, dicousu, disconnected, unconnected, discrete, disjunctive, fitful, spasmodic, desultory, intermitting, occasional, intermittent, alternate, recurrent

Adv. at intervals, by snatches, by jerks, by skips, by catches, by fits and starts, skippingly, per saltum, longo intervallo

Phr. like "angel visits few and far between"

Interval Roget’s Thesaurus §198

N. interval, interspace, separation, break, gap, opening, hole, chasm, hiatus, caesura, interruption, interregnum, interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha, gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm, gulf, inlet, frith, strait, gully, pass, furrow, abra, barranca, barranco, clove, gulch, notch, yawning gulf, hiatus maxime, hiatus valde deflendus, parenthesis, void 7c, (absence) 187, incompleteness, period, interim (time) 106

V. gape

Adj. with an interval, far between, breachy, rimose, rimulose

Adv. at intervals, longo intervallo

Imperfection Roget’s Thesaurus §651

N. imperfection, imperfectness, deficiency, inadequacy, peccancy, immaturity, fault, defect, weak point, screw loose, flaw, gap, twist, taint, attainder, bar sinister, hole in one's coat, blemish, weakness, half blood, shortcoming, drawback, seamy side, mediocrity, no great shakes, no great catch, not much to boast of, one-horse shay

V. be imperfect, have a defect, lie under a disadvantage, spring a leak, not pass muster, barely pass muster, fall short

Adj. imperfect, not perfect, deficient, defective, faulty, unsound, tainted, out of order, out of tune, cracked, leaky, sprung, warped, lame, injured, peccant, frail, inadequate, crude, incomplete, found wanting, below par, short- handed, below its full strength, under its full strength, below its full complement, indifferent, middling, ordinary, mediocre, average, so-so, coucicouci, milk and water, tolerable, fair, passable, pretty well, pretty good, rather good, moderately good, good, good enough, well enough, adequate, decent, not bad, not amiss, inobjectionable, unobjectionable, admissible, bearable, only better than nothing, secondary, inferior, second-rate, second-best, one-horse

Adv. almost &c, to a limited extent, rather, pretty, moderately, passing, only, considering, all things considered, enough

Phr. surgit amari aliquid

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6 KJV and 7 BSB verses contain “gap”

1 Kings 11:27

And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David his father.

and this is the account of his rebellion against the king. Solomon had built the supporting terraces and repaired the gap in the wall of the city of his father David.

Nehemiah 4:7

But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,

When Sanballat and Tobiah, together with the Arabs, Ammonites, and Ashdodites, heard that the repair to the walls of Jerusalem was progressing and that the gaps were being closed, they were furious,

Nehemiah 6:1

Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;)

When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left—though to that time I had not yet installed the doors in the gates—

Job 16:10

They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.

Psalms 22:13

They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

They open their jaws against me like lions that roar and maul.

Psalms 35:21

Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.

They gape at me and say, “Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen!”

Ezekiel 13:5

Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.

You did not go up to the gaps or restore the wall around the house of Israel so that it would stand in the battle on the Day of the LORD.

Ezekiel 22:30

And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.

I searched for a man among them to repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, so that I should not destroy it. But I found no one.

Amos 9:11

In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:

“In that day I will restore the fallen tent of David. I will repair its gaps, restore its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old,

1 Esdras 4:19

And letting all those things go, do they not gape, and even with open mouth fix their eyes fast on her; and have not all men more desire unto her than unto silver or gold, or any goodly thing whatsoever?

1 Esdras 4:31

And yet for all this the king gaped and gazed upon her with open mouth: if she laughed upon him, he laughed also: but if she took any displeasure at him, the king was fain to flatter, that she might be reconciled to him again.