Picture two things with nothing in between: a missing tooth, a break in a fence, the space you can see daylight through. English keeps that hole and moves it into other dimensions — the distance between two amounts, the piece missing from a plan, the empty stretch between two events, the low pass between two peaks.
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原始詞典資料25 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Gapname/ˈɡæp/
- 1
A town, the capital of the department of Hautes-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
gapnoun詞源 1/ɡæp/
- 1
An opening in anything, made by breaking or parting.
- He made a gap in the fence by kicking at a weak spot.
- 2
An opening allowing passage or entrance.
- We can slip through that gap between the buildings.
- 3
An opening that implies a breach or defect.
- There is a gap between the roof and the gutter.
- 4
A vacant space or time.
- I have a gap in my schedule next Tuesday.
- 5
A hiatus, a pause in something which is otherwise continuous.
- I'm taking a gap.
- You must wait for a gap in the traffic before crossing the road.
- 6
A vacancy, deficit, absence, or lack.
- Their departure has left a gap in the workforce.
- Find words to fill the gaps in an incomplete sentence.
- 7
A mountain or hill pass.
- The exploring party went through the high gap in the mountains.
- 8
A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
- At Birling Gap we can stop and go have a picnic on the beach.
另外 5 個記錄的用法
- 9
ball-gamesbaseballgamesThe regions between the outfielders.
- Jones doubled through the gap.
- 10
The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will pay to the service provider and the scheduled fee for the item.
- Under bulk billing the patient does not pay a gap, and the medical practitioner receives 85% of the scheduled fee.
- 11
literaryThe disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities with regard to life expectancy, education, health, etc.
- 12
biologygeneticsmedicineAn unsequenced region in a sequence alignment.
- 13
slangThe vagina.
gapverb詞源 1/ɡæp/
- 1
To notch, as a sword or knife.
- 2
To make an opening in; to breach.
- 3
To check the size of a gap.
- I gapped all the spark plugs in my car, but then realized I had used the wrong manual and had made them too small.
- 4
slanghobbieslifestylemotor-racingTo surpass (someone or something) by a considerable margin.
- Honestly K&C could release today with like a bit more SOT buffs and they'd probably still gap a lot of the game
- sometimes dril gets absolutely gapped by average ukraine war reddit comments
- 5
slangTo leave suddenly.
- [Article title:] 'They've just gapped it': Duo fled quarantine authorities after gang funeral
- 6
To fall or spill open so as to leave a gap.
- The robe gaps open at the waist, breasts spilling out of a lacy bra that looks like she might have had it since her college days.
- 7
Of an electric train, to be positioned, or to cause to be positioned, between electrical pickup points, causing loss of power.
- The lights flickered as the train momentarily gapped.
- The train was gapped just outside the station, and passengers were stranded for nearly two hours.
gapverb詞源 3/ɡæp/
- 1
datedslangTo stare or gape.
- Well, dey would all begin stretchin' and gappin', and den some of dem would say, with a gap and another stretch: […]
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- guilty anticipated plea
- Great Ape Project
- gup
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