Phrase Hound found 42 phrases and 14 compound words that contain gaps. The most common are listed below. Open gaps in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 42
- God of the gapsA God whose existence is put forward as an explanation for anything as yet unexplained by science.
- find the gapsAlternative form of find the gap: To play a shot or shots along the ground, in the spaces between fielders.
- finding the gapspresent participle and gerund of find the gaps
- finds the gapsthird-person singular simple present indicative of find the gaps: To play a shot or shots along the ground, in the spaces between fielders.
- found the gapssimple past and past participle of find the gaps
- pay gapsplural of pay gap: The difference in salaries between one group and another.
- prime gapsplural of prime gap: The difference between two successive prime numbers.
- water gapsplural of water gap: A pass or notch through a ridge or mountain range through which a stream or river flows.
- spark gapsplural of spark gap: A gap, between two electrical terminals, across which sparks are generated.
- lexical gapsplural of lexical gap: A potential word, word sense, morpheme, or other form that does not exist in some language despite the fact that it would be permissible by the grammatical rules of that language.
- parasitic gapsplural of parasitic gap: A construction wherein the dropping of an argument is dependent on a covarying argument having been fronted in a local context, as in "Which book did she review without reading?".
- Kirkwood gapsplural of Kirkwood gap: A gap in the distribution of semi-major axes of asteroids in the main belt.
- age gapsplural of age gap: A difference in ages between two or more people, especially in the context of romantic or sexual relationships.
- air gapsplural of air gap: A network security measure that consists of ensuring that a secure computer network is physically isolated from unsecured networks, such as the public Internet or an unsecured local area network.
- content gapsplural of content gap: The difference between what users are looking for on the web, and the results they receive.
- digital gapsplural of digital gap: The gap between those with regular, effective access to digital technologies (and the computer literacy to use them) and those without it.
- gender gapsplural of gender gap: A measurable difference between the pay, status, political preferences etc. of men and women.
- generation gapsplural of generation gap: A disconnect between members of one generation and members of the next based on the later generation developing habits, attitudes, and preferences inconsistent with the experience of the former.
- genetic gapsplural of genetic gap: A flaw in the DNA.
- hungry gapsplural of hungry gap: The interval in early spring (approximately from March to May in the Northern Hemisphere) during which the remaining stores of the previous year’s winter vegetables are depleted, yet the forthcoming season’s summer …
- leaf gapsplural of leaf gap: A gap or break in the central cylinder of vascular tissue within a plant's stem, caused by the extension of the tissue as a leaf trace.
- legal gapsplural of legal gap: A state of regulation that is uncomfortable by there being no conspicuous provision for a certain situation.
- power gapsplural of power gap: A big difference between two amounts of power.
- root gapsplural of root gap: The intentional separation or gap at the root of a weld joint between the workpieces being joined.
- stop-gapsplural of stop-gap: That which stops up or fills a gap or hole.
Compound words 14
- minigapsplural of minigap: A small gap
- airgapsplural of airgap: A network security measure that consists of ensuring that a secure computer network is physically isolated from unsecured networks, such as the public Internet or an unsecured local area network.
- bandgapsplural of bandgap: The energy difference between two allowed ranges of electron energy in a solid; especially the difference between the energies of the valence band and the conduction band.
- eigengapsplural of eigengap: The difference between successive eigenvalues.
- gapsitesplural of gapsite: The location where a building has been torn down or demolished.
- GapstedA locality in Alpine Shire, north eastern Victoria, Australia.
- microgapsplural of microgap: A microscopic gap.
- midgapsplural of midgap: The middle of a gap.
- nanogapsplural of nanogap: A nanoscale gap
- pregapsplural of pregap: A portion of a compact disc preceding the start of a track.