Synonyms for gap
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1. gapnoun

   Synonyms:
   hole, clearing, rip, opening, fissure, chasm, break, pass, rift, split, window, neck, col, tear

2. gapnoun

   An opening that implies a breach or defect.

   There is a gap between the roof and the gutter.

   Synonyms:
   space

3. gapnoun

   A hiatus.

   I'm taking a gap.

   Synonyms:
   hiatus

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1. gap, spreadnoun

   a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures

   "gap between income and outgo"; "the spread between lending and borrowing costs"

   Synonyms:
   bedcover, spreading, spread head, cattle ranch, counterpane, banquet, facing pages, spread, crack, interruption, cattle farm, break, bedspread, scatter, bed covering, spreadhead, feast, disruption, bed cover, opening, paste, ranch, col

2. opening, gapnoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   possibility, opening night, chess opening, spread, curtain raising, opening move, hatchway, crack, scuttle, interruption, initiative, disruption, opening, possible action, first step, orifice, col, break, porta

3. gap, cracknoun

   a narrow opening

   "he opened the window a crack"

   Synonyms:
   go, quip, cracking, fracture, whirl, fling, spread, sally, crack, crack cocaine, fissure, wisecrack, interruption, pass, break, tornado, cleft, offer, snap, crevice, chap, disruption, opening, cranny, scissure, col, shot

4. col, gapnoun

   a pass between mountain peaks

   Synonyms:
   col, interruption, crack, opening, spread, disruption, break

5. gapnoun

   a difference (especially an unfortunate difference) between two opinions or two views or two situations

   Synonyms:
   break, interruption, col, opening, crack, spread, disruption

6. break, interruption, disruption, gapverb

   an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity

   "it was presented without commercial breaks"; "there was a gap in his account"

   Synonyms:
   disturbance, commotion, jailbreak, respite, happy chance, crack, interruption, rift, intermission, break of serve, severance, falling out, prisonbreak, suspension, recess, faulting, breakout, flutter, hoo-hah, geological fault, hurly burly, spread, col, to-do, break, good luck, breaking, disruption, open frame, gaolbreak, dislocation, breach, breakage, perturbation, fault, pause, shift, fracture, time out, kerfuffle, opening, rupture, hoo-ha, prison-breaking

7. gap, breachverb

   make an opening or gap in

   Synonyms:
   violate, breach, infract, offend, break, go against, transgress

Matched Categories

1. • Disparity
   • Dispute
   • Open
   • Pass
   • Space
   • Surface

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1. diastema

   a gap in between teeth

   Submitted by rinat on September 10, 2019  

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1. gapnoun

   Synonyms:
   cleft, crevice, opening, chink, cranny, crack, interstice, breach, rift, break, hiatus

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1. gapnoun

   Synonyms:
   hiatus, rift, crevice, rent, interstice, chasm, opening

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1. List of paraphrases for "gap":

   divide, difference, variance, disparity, discrepancy, loophole, ditch, chasm, gaps, vacuum, lacuna, deficit, deviation, gulf, shortcoming, deficiency, differences, differential, distance, shortfall, abyss, cap, empty, rift, discontinuity, disparities, void, gat, variances, hole, shortcomings, deficiencies, graben, mismatch, lack, deviations, jaap, flaw, lag, variation, divergence, hiatus, inequality, kip, lacunae, wedge, imbalance, fracture, bpa, omission, separation

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1. James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology:

   The security theater we are witnessing in our election system boasting the illusion of security via ‘clunky as heck’ and air gap defense will do nothing against the real and sophisticated adversarial landscape that is zeroing in on our democracy

2. Jimmy Weng:

   China is essentially trying to close that gap and it's much more difficult to do that if you have these outsiders coming in and taking advantage of the arbitrage.

3. Corey Ballentine:

   I think about it every day obviously because it was somebody who was in my life every day and its hard to fill that gap, i havent filled it yet but I am trying to move forward. I have a lot to accomplish here, the playbook I have to learn. I have other things to learn but I cant keep myself in that place every day. But I think about it every day. Its hard.

4. Igor Volsky:

   The missing ingredient is public pressure, and that's the gap this campaign is trying to fill, the significant increase in gun violence over the last couple of years is simply too hard to ignore and, I do believe The President when The President says and when Igor Volsky said that this issue is a priority for The President.

5. Rose Cannon:

   When you use the term reparations, we would like for it to be associated with the full repair of human beings, to close the racial income gap, housing can only be a portion of it, maybe a silo of it.