gap meaning
EN
[ɡæp] [-æp] 
US WGap
- Gap or The Gap may refer to:
FR Gap 
- NounPLgaps
- An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
- a gap in a fence; He made a gap by kicking a weak spot.
- An opening allowing passage or entrance.
- We can slip through that gap.
- An opening that implies a breach or defect.
- There is a gap between the roof and the gutter.
- A vacant space or time.
- I have a gap in my schedule next Tuesday.
- A hiatus.
- The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.
- A mountain or hill pass.
- The exploring party went through the high gap in the mountains.
- (Sussex) 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.
- (baseball) The regions between the outfielders.
- Jones doubled through the gap.
- (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.
- An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
- VerbSGgapsPRgappingPT, PPgapped
- (transitive) To notch, as a sword or knife.
- (transitive) To make an opening in; to breach.
- (transitive) To check the size of a gap.
- I gapped all the sparkplugs in my car then realized I used the wrong manual and had made them too small.
- (transitive) To notch, as a sword or knife.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The Bantams bridged the gap between the bottom division of English league football and the Premier League to secure a place at Wembley, despite a 2-1 second-leg defeat.
- Therefore, the monolayer could be used to demonstrate the effects of cyclic stretching on interepithelial gap formation.
- Jones tattoos one into the gap in left; that will clear the bases.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of gap in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Nouns
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "gap" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.