stopgap
midgap
gap
breach
gapful
chasmed
gapped
interpause
lacune
hiatus
lacuna
fill-in
close
uh
porous
gapingly
gappiness
lacunate
dotted
minigap
dashed
gapping
against the collar
stibine
gaplike
gappy
remit
buffer
blank
slacken
skinny
nippit
resting
take a breather
diastema
fill up
letup
caesura
crampish
shim
broken
subgap
coop
gape
filler
lacunule
gapless
pinched
pausing
hold it
cloy
gulf
stoppage
well
tighteningly
breath
fold
fold up
opening
-stasis
slit
spheno-
collapse
transhiatal
pausefully
check
gappyness
multigapped
wedgewise
surge
wedge
spackle
haltingly
moldy
mark time
pausingly
trim
ant nest beetle
infill
abruptio
aperture
shave
clenched
clinched
squeak out
infiller
ruck
agar-agar
dissect
stop
lapse
plug
unwind
stopgap
gapful
chasmed
gapped
interpause
porous
lacunate
dotted
dashed
gaplike
gappy
skinny
nippit
crampish
broken
subgap
gapless
pinched
transhiatal
multigapped
moldy
clenched
clinched
gapingly
tighteningly
pausefully
wedgewise
haltingly
pausingly
midgap
lacune
hiatus
lacuna
fill-in
stopgap
gappiness
minigap
gapping
stibine
buffer
blank
resting
diastema
letup
caesura
shim
filler
lacunule
pausing
gulf
stoppage
breath
opening
slit
gappyness
ant nest beetle
abruptio
aperture
infiller
agar-agar
stop
lapse
stopgap
gap
breach
close
remit
slacken
take a breather
fill up
coop
gape
hold it
cloy
fold
fold up
slit
collapse
check
surge
wedge
spackle
mark time
trim
infill
shave
squeak out
ruck
dissect
plug
unwind
adj
verb
- To stop up or fill (a physical gap or hole, or a hiatus).
- To use something as a short-term fix or temporary measure until a better alternative can be obtained.
- To work at a position temporarily until a permanent appointment or hire is made.
noun
- That which stops up or fills a gap or hole.
- Something spoken to fill up an uncomfortable pause in speech; a filled pause or filler.
- A short-term fix or temporary measure used until something better can be obtained; that which serves as an expedient in an emergency; a band-aid solution.
- A person appointed or hired to fill a position temporarily until a permanent appointment or hire can be made; a temp.
noun
verb
noun
- a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures
- an open or empty space in or between things
- a narrow opening
- a pass between mountain peaks; geomorphological term for the lowest point on a mountain ridge between two peaks
- a difference (especially an unfortunate difference) between two opinions or two views or two situations
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
adj
noun
- A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.
- Any gap, break, hole, or lack in a set of things; something missing.
- A language gap, which occurs when there is no direct translation in the target language for a lexical term found in the source language.
- An absent part, especially in a book or other piece of writing, often referring to an ancient manuscript or similar.
- A space visible between cells, allowing free passage of light.
- A small opening; a small pit or depression, especially in bone.
noun
- Something added to fill a gap.
- A substitution.
- An intermediate result that must be stored temporarily during the course of a sparse matrix computation.
- A temporary replacement for another, especially at a job.
- A musical embellishment (usually percussion) that is added to connect musical phrases.
- A product category that is used to complete a range or variety of a product line.
- Something added to increase the size of something; padding or filler.
- A question or puzzle in which one is expected to fill in a missing part of something.
verb
- To make (e.g. a gap) smaller.
- To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
- To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
- To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
- To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
- To make a sale.
- To move so that an opening is closed.
- To grapple; to engage in close combat.
- To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
- To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
- To come to an end.
- To put an end to; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to consummate.
- To obstruct (an opening).
- To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
- To turn off; to switch off.
noun
- The common staircase in a tenement.
- A cathedral close.
- The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
- The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
- The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
- A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
- An end or conclusion.
- A grapple in wrestling.
- The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
- The time when checkin staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
- A double bar marking the end.
- A street that ends in a dead end.
adj
- Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
- Marked, evident.
- Intimate; well-loved.
- Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
- Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
- Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer or goal); near
- Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
- At a little distance; near.
- Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
- Hot, humid, with no wind.
- Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
- Narrow; confined.
- Short.
- Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
noun
prep_phrase
noun
- A gap that isolates or separates two things.
- The metal barrier to help prevent trains from running off the end of the track.
- A machine with rotary brushes, passed over a hard floor to clean it.
- An isolating circuit, often an amplifier, used to minimize the influence of a driven circuit on the driving circuit.
- A machine for polishing shoes and boots.
- A good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man.
- A routine or storage medium used to compensate for a difference in rate of flow of data, or time of occurrence of events, when transferring data from one device to another.
- A portion of memory set aside to temporarily store data, often before it is sent to an external device or as it is received from an external device.
- A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid.
- Anything used to maintain slack or isolate different objects.
- A buffer zone (such as a demilitarized zone) or a buffer state.
- The chief boatswain's mate.
- A device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them.
verb
noun
- a blank gap or missing part
- a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing
- a piece of material ready to be made into something
- a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
adj
- (of a surface) not written or printed on
- without comprehension
- not charged with a bullet
- complete and absolute
verb
adj
- tight-fitting
- thin, generally in a negative sense (as opposed to slim, which is thin in a positive sense).
- Naked; nude (chiefly used in the phrase skinny dipping).
- Synonym of thin (“type of shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head”)
- Having reduced fat or calories.
verb
noun
adj
adj
noun
- A wedge.
- A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.
- A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.
- A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds.
- A small metal device used to pick open a lock.
- A person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits; a hermaphrodite.
- A transsexual person, especially a trans woman; (loosely) a drag queen or transvestite.
verb
adj
- Dashed; made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
- Overpowered; overly powerful; too powerful.
- Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic.
- Fractured; having the bone in pieces.
- Badly designed or implemented.
- Fragmented; in separate pieces.
- Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.
- Interrupted; not continuous.
- Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
- Not having gone in the way intended; saddening.
- Having periods of silence scattered throughout; not regularly continuous.
- Split or ruptured.
- Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being produced by a non-native speaker.
- Breached; violated; not kept.
- Non-functional; not functioning properly.
- Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
- Uneven.
adj
verb
- To shut up or confine in a narrow space; to cramp.
- To keep in a coop.
- Of a police officer: to sleep or relax while on duty.
- To unlawfully confine one or more voters to prevent them from casting their ballots in an election.
noun
- A wickerwork basket (kipe) or other enclosure for catching fish.
- A cart with sides and ends made from boards, enabling it to carry manure, etc.
- A narrow place of confinement, a cage; a jail, a prison.
- A cart which opens at the back to release its load; a tumbril.
- A basket, pen or enclosure for birds or small animals.
- A small heap.
verb
- To open wide; to display a gap.
- To open the passage to the vomeronasal organ, analogous to the flehming in other animals.
- To depict a dilated anal or vaginal cavity upon penetrative sexual activity.
- To stare in wonder.
- To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise.
noun
noun
- Any spoken sound or word used to fill gaps in speech; filled pause.
- Something added to fill a space or add weight or size.
- Any semisolid substance used to fill gaps, cracks or pores.
- A relatively inert ingredient added to modify physical characteristics.
- A short article in a newspaper or magazine.
- Any standing tree or standard higher than the surrounding coppice in the form of forest known as "coppice under standards".
- material of lower cost or quality that is used to fill a certain television time slot or physical medium, such as a music album
- In COBOL, the description of an unnamed part of a record that contains no data relevant to a given context (normally capitalised when in a data division).
- One who fills.
- A short piece of music or an announcement between radio or TV programmes.
- A plant that lacks a distinctive shape and can fill inconvenient spaces around other plants in pots or gardens.
- Cut tobacco used to make up the body of a cigar.
noun
adj
noun
noun
- A wide interval or gap; a separating space.
- A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially landlocked sea
- The bottom part of a list of those awarded a degree, for those who have only just passed.
- That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy.
- A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin.
- A large deposit of ore in a lode.
- A difference, especially a large difference, between groups.
verb
intj
- Used in speech to fill gaps, particularly at the beginning of a response to a question; filled pause.
- An exclamation of sarcastic surprise (often doubled or tripled and spoken in a lowering intonation).
- Used to acknowledge a statement or situation.
- An exclamation of indignance.
- Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something.
- Used as a greeting
- Used as a question to demand an answer from someone reluctant to answer.
adj
adv
- To a significant degree.
- In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.
- Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
- Completely, fully.
- Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
verb
- To have something seep out of the surface.
- To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.
noun
- A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported to market.
- A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects.
- A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.
- A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
- A source of supply.
- The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.
- An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
- In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes.
- A well drink.
- A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
- A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
- The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
- The cockpit of a sailboat.
- The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom.
- A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.
noun
- A gap permitting passage through.
- The first few measures of a musical composition.
- The first performance of a show or play by a particular troupe.
- The initial period when a show at an art gallery or museum is first opened, especially the first evening.
- A vacant position, especially in an array.
- An unoccupied employment position.
- In mathematical morphology, the dilation of the erosion of a set.
- An act or instance of making or becoming open.
- A time available in a schedule.
- An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
- An act or instance of beginning.
- The first few moves in a game.
adj
suffix
verb
- stop for a moment, as if out of uncertainty or caution
- examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition
- make an examination or investigation
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- put a check mark on or near or next to
- slow the growth or development of
- be verified or confirmed; pass inspection
- be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics
- block or impede (a player from the opposing team) in ice hockey
- develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control
- consign for shipment on a vehicle
- hand over something to somebody as for temporary safekeeping
- abandon the intended prey, turn, and pursue an inferior prey
- stop in a chase especially when scent is lost
- mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on
- decline to initiate betting
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- place into check
- write out a check on a bank account
- find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- verify by consulting a source or authority
- arrest the motion (of something) abruptly
- make cracks or chinks in
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
noun
- a written order directing a bank to pay money
- an appraisal of the state of affairs
- the bill in a restaurant
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct
- the act of inspecting or verifying
- a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc.
- something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
- a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something
- a textile pattern of squares or crossed lines (resembling a checkerboard)
- the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess
- obstructing an opponent in ice hockey
- (chess) a direct attack on an opponent's king
verb
- To slack off a line.
- To experience a momentary reversal of airflow through the compressor section due to disruption of intake airflow.
- To accelerate forwards, particularly suddenly.
- To rush, flood, or increase suddenly.
noun
- A deployment in large numbers at short notice.
- The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's forward/backward oscillation.
- The tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon which the cable surges, or slips.
- A sudden transient rush, flood or increase.
- A momentary reversal of the airflow through the compressor section of a jet engine due to disruption of the airflow entering the engine's air intake, accompanied by loud banging noises, emission of flame, and temporary loss of thrust.
- A sudden electrical spike or increase of voltage and current.
- The swell or heave of the sea (FM 55-501).
verb
- To force into a narrow gap.
- To cleave with a wedge.
- To support or secure using a wedge.
- To force or drive with a wedge.
- Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
- To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.
- To shape into a wedge.
- To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
noun
- A háček.
- The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
- A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
- A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
- A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
- A quantity of money.
- The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
- A wedge tornado.
- A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
- One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.
- A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
- One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
- A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
- A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
- The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
- One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.
- A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.
- Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
- A market trend characterized by a contracting range in prices coupled with an upward trend in prices (a rising wedge) or a downward trend in prices (a falling wedge).
verb
- cut closely
- remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size
- decorate, as with ornaments
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- balance in flight by regulating the control surfaces
- be in equilibrium during a flight
- decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- adjust (sails on a ship) so that the wind is optimally used
adj
- thin and fit
- characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder
- neat and smart in appearance
- severely simple in line or design
noun
noun
noun
- A small or narrow opening, gap, slit, or hole.
- The diameter of such a hole which restricts the width of the lightpath through the whole system. For a telescope, this is the diameter of the objective lens.
- A hole which restricts the diameter of the lightpath through one plane in an optical system.
- The (typically) large-diameter antenna used for receiving and transmitting radio frequency energy containing the data used in communication satellites, especially in the geostationary belt. For a comsat, this is typically a large reflective dish antenna; sometimes called an array.
- The maximum angle between the two generatrices.
verb
- To become folded.
- To contest the possession of the ball in a ruck.
- To carry a backpack while hiking or marching.
- To crease or fold.
noun
- A contest in games in which the ball is thrown or bounced in the air and two players from opposing teams attempt to give their team an advantage, typically by tapping the ball to a teammate.
- Any one of a ruckman, a ruck rover or a rover; a follower.
- The common mass of people or things; the ordinary ranks.
- A small heifer.
- An argument or fight.
- The situation formed when a player carrying the ball is brought to the ground and one or more members of each side are engaged above the ball, trying to win possession of it; a loose scrum.
- A player who competes in said contests; a ruckman or ruckwoman.
- A rucksack; a large backpack.
- A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack.
- A crease, a wrinkle, a pucker, as on fabric.
noun
noun
- a spot where something halts or pauses
- the event of something ending
- the act of stopping something
- a brief stay in the course of a journey
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
- a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
- a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
verb
- come to a halt, stop moving
- put an end to a state or an activity
- stop from happening or developing
- interrupt a trip
- cause to end
- prevent completion
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- seize on its way
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- render unsuitable for passage
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
noun
- A pause in continuity.
- A decline or fall in standards.
- A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.
- A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer than the surrounding air.
- A fall or apostasy.
- An interval of time between events.
- A temporary failure; a slip.
- A termination of a right etc., through disuse or neglect.
- memory lapse
verb
verb
- To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
- To persist or continue with something.
- To ingest a drug rectally
- To blatantly mention a particular product or service as if advertising it.
- To have sex with, penetrate sexually.
- To shoot a bullet into something with a gun.
noun
- A promotion (act of promoting) a product (such as a book, film or play) or other thing (concept, etc), for example during an interview or a commercial.
- A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
- A standard, modular fuselage component that can be added or removed.
- An electric socket: wall plug.
- Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole.
- A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
- A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the ear.
- A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
- A high, tapering silk hat.
- A branch from a water-pipe to supply a hose.
- A drug dealer.
- A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually with a peat or compost substrate.
- A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
- A worthless horse.
- A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
verb
- To close out a position, especially a complicated position.
- To undo something.
- To relax; to chill out; to rest and become relieved of stress
- To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted.
- To analyse (a call stack) so as to generate a stack trace etc.
- To separate (something that is wound up)
noun
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