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How to pronounce “gap”
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Pronunciation guide for gap
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of gap with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Beyond the Label: Women, Leadership & Success on Our Own Terms
She has worked at The Gap, helped launch Old Navy,
- Definition summary
- An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce gap
Beyond the Label: Women, Leadership & Success on Our Own Terms
She has worked at The Gap, helped launch Old Navy,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “gap”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
- An opening allowing passage or entrance.
- An opening that implies a breach or defect.
- A vacant space or time.
- A hiatus, a pause in something which is otherwise continuous.
- A vacancy, deficit, absence, or lack.
- A mountain or hill pass.
- (Sussex) A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
- (baseball) The regions between the outfielders.
- (Australia, for a medical or pharmacy item) The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will pay to the service provider and the scheduled fee for the item.
- (Australia, usually written as "the gap") The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities with regard to life expectancy, education, health, etc.
- (genetics) An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment.
- (slang, euphemistic) The vagina.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To notch, as a sword or knife.
- (transitive) To make an opening in; to breach.
- (transitive) To check the size of a gap.
- (transitive, intransitive, slang, especially video games, motor racing) To surpass (someone or something) by a considerable margin.
- (New Zealand, slang) To leave suddenly.
- (intransitive) To fall or spill open so as to leave a gap.
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