In finding ways and means, and stopping gaps. To stop a Gap, is to escape by some mean shift: alluding to hedges mended with dead bushes, ’till the quicksets will grow. The hiatus, or gap between two words, is caused by two vowels opening on each other.Īlexander Pope. An opening of the mouth in speech during the pronunciation of two successive vowels. One can revive a languishing conversation by a sudden surprising sentence another is more dexterous in seconding a third can fill the gap with laughing. To make ’twixt words and lines huge gaps, That I might sleep out this great gap of time my Antony is away. Perform’d in this wide gap of time, since first Nor is it any botch or gap at all in the works of nature. If you violently proceed against him, mistaking his purpose, it would make a great gap in your honour. The former kings of England passed into them a great part of their prerogatives which though then it was well intended, and perhaps well deserved, yet now such a gap of mischief lies open thereby, that I could wish it were well stopt. So stands the Thracian herdsman with his spearįull in the gap, and hopes the hunted bear, Stands in the gap, and treads for more preferment. O’ th’ rolls and the king’s secretary: further The loss of that strong city concerned the Christian commonweal: manifold and lamentable miseries afterwards ensued by the opening of that gap, not unto the kingdom of Hungary only, but to all that side of Christendom. I sought for a man, says God, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me, for the land that I should not destroy it. Roll’d inward, and a spacious gap disclos’dīushes are most lasting of any for dead hedges, or to mend gaps. With terrours and with furies to the boundsĪnd crystal wall of heav’n which, opening wide, Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:Įtymology: from gape.
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I gapped all the sparkplugs in my car then realized I used the wrong manual and had made them too small. The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will pay to the service provider and the scheduled fee for the item. The exploring party went through the high gap in the mountains.Ī sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).Īt Birling Gap we can stop and go have a picnic on the beach. I have a gap in my schedule next Tuesday.
There is a gap between the roof and the gutter. Wiktionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:Īn opening in anything made by breaking or parting.Īn opening that implies a breach or defect.
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