gaps

nounbreak, breach

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noun break, breach

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Word Origin & History

early 14c. (mid-13c. in place names), from Old Norse gap "chasm," related to gapa "to gape," from PIE *ghai- "to yawn, gape" (see yawn (v.)). Originally "hole in a wall or hedge;" broader sense is 16c. In U.S., common in place names in reference to a break or pass in a long mountain chain (especially one that water flows through). As a verb from 1847.

Example Sentences for gaps

How often have the gaps in Theology been concealed from the eye of faith!

Are there no contradictions, no gaps in the sequence of ideas?

History fills up some of its gaps by an accumulation of reasonings.

We are irresistibly impelled to endeavour to fill up these gaps.

And far from being filled, these gaps are becoming wider day by day.

But Lennon good-humouredly helped Carmena to bridge the gaps.

Another officer was down; there were gaps in the ranks and under feet the wounded.

There were no sharp breaks in the curve or gaps in the supporting equations.

There are gaps which we can't fill up, of course, but we're pretty complete.

In filling up some of the gaps he might have been preposterously wrong.

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