Gap \Gap\, v. t.
   1. To notch, as a sword or knife.
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   2. To make an opening in; to breach.
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            Their masses are gapp'd with our grape. --Tennyson.
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	Gap \Gap\ (g[a^]p), n. [OE. gap; cf. Icel. gap an empty space,
   Sw. gap mouth, breach, abyss, Dan. gab mouth, opening, AS.
   geap expanse; as adj., wide, spacious. See Gape.]
   1. 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.
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            Miseries ensued by the opening of that gap.
                                                  --Knolles.
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            It would make a great gap in your own honor. --Shak.
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   2. (A["e]ronautics) The vertical distance between two
      superposed surfaces, esp. in a biplane.
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   Gap lathe (Mach.), a turning lathe with a deep notch in the
      bed to admit of turning a short object of large diameter.
      

   To stand in the gap, to expose one's self for the
      protection of something; to make defense against any
      assailing danger; to take the place of a fallen defender
      or supporter.

   To stop a gap, to secure a weak point; to repair a defect.
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	gap
     n 1: a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two
          figures; "gap between income and outgo"; "the spread
          between lending and borrowing costs" [syn: spread]
     2: an open or empty space in or between things; "there was a
        small opening between the trees"; "the explosion made a
        gap in the wall" [syn: opening]
     3: a narrow opening; "he opened the window a crack" [syn: crack]
     4: a pass between mountain peaks [syn: col]
     5: an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity; "it was
        presented without commercial breaks" [syn: break, interruption,
         disruption]
     v : make an opening or gap in [syn: breach]
     [also: gapping, gapped]

	

	171 Moby Thesaurus words for "gap":
   abysm, abyss, aperture, arrearage, arroyo, bottom, bottom glade,
   bottoms, box canyon, breach, break, breakage, broaching, burst,
   caesura, canyon, cavity, cessation, chap, chasm, check, chimney,
   chink, chip, clearing, cleavage, cleave, cleft, cleuch, clough,
   clove, col, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cut,
   cut apart, cwm, dale, defalcation, defect, deficiency, deficit,
   defile, dehisce, delay, dell, difference, dike, dingle,
   disagreement, disclosure, discontinuity, discrepancy, disparity,
   disruption, distance, distinction, ditch, divergence, division,
   donga, draw, excavation, fault, fenestra, fissure, fistula, flaw,
   flume, fontanel, foramen, fracture, furrow, gape, gash, gat, gill,
   glen, gorge, groove, grove, gulch, gulf, gully, halt, hang open,
   hiatus, hole, hollow, incise, incision, inconsistency, inlet,
   interim, intermission, interruption, interspace, interval,
   intervale, joint, kloof, lack, lacuna, laying open, leak, letup,
   lull, lunar rill, missing link, moat, need, notch, nullah,
   omission, open, opening, opening up, orifice, oscitate, outage,
   outlet, pass, passage, passageway, pause, pore, ravine, recess,
   rent, respite, rest, rift, rime, rip, rive, rupture, scale,
   scissure, seam, separation, shortage, slash, slice, slit, slot,
   space, splinter, split, stoma, stop, strath, suspension, tear,
   throwing open, trench, trough, ullage, uncorking, unstopping, vale,
   valley, void, wadi, wait, want, wantage, yawn

	

	GAP
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	GAP
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	GAP
     
         Groups Algorithms and Programming.
     
        A system for symbolic mathematics for computational discrete
        algebra, especially group theory, by Johannes Meier, Alice
        Niemeyer, Werner Nickel, and Martin Schonert of Aachen.  GAP
        was designed in 1986 and implemented 1987.  Version 2.4 was
        released in 1988 and version 3.1 in 1992.
     
        Sun version (ftp://ftp.math.rwth-aachen.de/pub/gap).
     
        ["GAP 3.3 Manual, M. Schonert et al, Lehrstuhl D Math, RWTH
        Aachen, 1993].
     
        (1995-04-12)

	

	Gap
   a rent or opening in a wall (Ezek. 13:5; comp. Amos 4:3). The
   false prophets did not stand in the gap (Ezek. 22: 30), i.e.,
   they did nothing to stop the outbreak of wickedness.

	

	Gap, PA (CDP, FIPS 28376)
  Location: 39.98894 N, 76.02423 W
  Population (1990): 1226 (490 housing units)
  Area: 5.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 17527

	

	Gap, PA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Pennsylvania
   Population (2000):    1611
   Housing Units (2000): 597
   Land area (2000):     2.794488 sq. miles (7.237690 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    2.794488 sq. miles (7.237690 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            28376
   Located within:       Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
   Location:             39.987360 N, 76.019254 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     17527
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Gap, PA
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