Definition of Gap

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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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Gap Quotations

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

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

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 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 think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.
Barney Frank

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

Senior development specialists in the Treasury can be counted on one hand. America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.
Jeffrey Sachs

The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.
Sandra Day O'Connor

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

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

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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