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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.

(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.

{{lb|en|AU|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.

(euphemistic) The vagina. +

To notch, as a sword or knife.

To make an opening in; to breach.

To check the size of a gap.

(surpass) (racing) To surpass (someone or something) by a considerable margin.

(slang) To leave suddenly.

To fall or spill open so as to leave a gap.

(gup) {{gloss|elected head of a gewog in Bhutan}}

(dated) To stare or gape.