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Definition of Gap
Gap
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.

To notch, as a sword or knife.

To make an opening in; to breach.

The vertical distance between two superposed surfaces, esp. in a biplane.

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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
Vince Lombardi

I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part.
Mitt Romney

Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear.
Mitt Romney

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.
Earl Nightingale

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
George Orwell

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.
Ella Maillart

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
Spiro T. Agnew

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
Henry A. Kissinger

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.
James Dean

The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching.
Jean Piaget



Gap Translations
gap in Dutch is opening, bres, gaping
gap in Italian is buca, spazio
gap in Portuguese is abertura
gap in Spanish is huelgo, brecha


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