gap : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a pass through the Cumberland Mountains between Virginia and Kentucky that early settlers used in order to move west
  

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• (Bot.), an opening in the fibrovascular system of a stem at the point of origin of a leaf.

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• (Mach.), a turning lathe with a deep notch in the bed to admit of turning a short object of large diameter.

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• adjective satellite having widely spaced teeth
  
  • his gap-toothed grin

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Gap"-toothed` adjective

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1. Having interstices between the teeth. Dryden.

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• noun a musical scale with fewer than seven notes
  

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• noun a difference between the views of young people and their parents
  

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• noun a component of an ignition system; consists of two shaped electrodes and the space between them
  
• noun the gap between two high-potential terminals
  

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Stop"-gap` noun

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1. That which closes or fills up an opening or gap; hence, a temporary expedient.

   Moral prejudices are the stop-gaps of virtue. Hare.

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The gapes

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1. A fit of yawning.
2. A disease of young poultry and other birds, attended with much gaping. It is caused by a parasitic nematode worm (Syngamus trachealis), in the windpipe, which obstructs the breathing. See Gapeworm.

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• to expose one's self for the protection of something; to make defense against any assailing danger; to take the place of a fallen defender or supporter.

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• to secure a weak point; to repair a defect.

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• noun the difference in value over a period of time of a country's imports and exports of merchandise
  visible balance; trade balance; balance of trade.
  
  • a nation's balance of trade is favorable when its exports exceed its imports

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• noun a pass in a mountain ridge through which a stream flows
  

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• noun a pass in a mountain ridge with no stream flowing through it
  

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