Synonyms of the word

gap

• n. An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
• n. An opening allowing passage or entrance.
• n. An opening that implies a breach or defect.
• n. A vacant space or time.
• n. A hiatus.
• n. A mountain or hill pass.
• n. (Sussex) A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
• n. (baseball) The regions between the outfielders.
• n. (Australia, for a medical or pharmacy item) The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will…
• n. (Australia) (usually written as "the gap") The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities…
• n. (genetics) An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment.
• v. (transitive) To notch, as a sword or knife.
• v. (transitive) To make an opening in; to breach.
• v. (transitive) To check the size of a gap.
• n. Alternative form of gup (elected head of a gewog in Bhutan).

breach

• n. A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee; the space between…
• n. A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling-out.
• n. A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
• n. A breaking out upon; an assault.
• n. (archaic) A bruise; a wound.
• n. (archaic) A hernia; a rupture.
• n. (law) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment.
• n. (figuratively) A difference in opinions, social class etc.
• n. The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
• v. (transitive) To make a breach in.
• v. (transitive) To violate or break.
• v. (transitive, nautical, of the sea) To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
• v. (intransitive, of a whale) To leap clear out of the water.

break

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that…
• v. (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
• v. (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
• v. (transitive) To ruin financially.
• v. (transitive) To violate, to not adhere to.
• v. (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, temperaturewise.
• v. (intransitive, of a storm or spell of weather) To end.
• v. (transitive, gaming slang) To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
• v. (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
• v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
• v. (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately)…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
• v. (intransitive, of morning) To arrive.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
• v. (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
• v. (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
• v. (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down;…
• v. (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a…
• v. (sports and games).
• v. (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
• v. (transitive) To end (a connection), to disconnect.
• v. (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
• v. (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
• v. (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
• v. (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
• v. (of a horse) To tame, to horsebreak.
• n. An instance of breaking something into two pieces.
• n. A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
• n. A rest or pause, usually from work. Often the mid-morning breaktime in the school day.
• n. A short holiday.
• n. A temporary split with a romantic partner.
• n. An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast,…
• n. A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
• n. The beginning (of the morning).
• n. An act of escaping.
• n. (computing) The separation between lines or paragraphs of a written text.
• n. (Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
• n. (sports and games).
• n. (dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in…
• n. (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
• n. (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
• n. (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is,…
• n. (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as…

col

• n. A dip between mountain peaks in a summit-line.

conflict

• n. A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.
• n. An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.
• v. (intransitive, with ‘with’) To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible.
• v. (intransitive, with ‘with’) To overlap (with), as in a schedule.

crack

• v. (intransitive) To form cracks.
• v. (intransitive) To break apart under pressure.
• v. (intransitive) To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
• v. (intransitive) To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
• v. (intransitive) To make a cracking sound.
• v. (intransitive, of a voice) To change rapidly in register.
• v. (intransitive, of a pubescent boy's voice) To alternate between high and low register in the process of…
• v. (intransitive) To make a sharply humorous comment.
• v. (transitive) To make a crack or cracks in.
• v. (transitive) To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
• v. (transitive) To strike forcefully.
• v. (transitive) To open slightly.
• v. (transitive) To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure. (Figurative).
• v. (transitive) To solve a difficult problem. (Figurative, from cracking a nut.).
• v. (transitive) To overcome a security system or a component.
• v. (transitive) To cause to make a sharp sound.
• v. (transitive) To tell (a joke).
• v. (transitive, chemistry, informal) To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application…
• v. (transitive, computing) To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
• v. (transitive, informal) To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
• v. (obsolete) To brag, boast.
• v. (archaic, colloquial) To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
• n. A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
• n. A narrow opening.
• n. A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
• n. A potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
• n. (onomatopoeia) The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
• n. (onomatopoeia) Any sharp sound.
• n. (informal) An attempt at something.
• n. (vulgar, slang) vagina.
• n. (informal) The space between the buttocks.
• n. (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous…
• n. (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Business/events/news.
• n. (computing) A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
• n. (Cumbria, elsewhere throughout the North of the UK) a meaningful chat.
• n. (Internet slang) Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
• n. The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
• n. (archaic) A mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity.
• n. (archaic) A crazy or crack-brained person.
• n. (obsolete) A boast; boasting.
• n. (obsolete) Breach of chastity.
• n. (obsolete) A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
• n. (slang, dated, Britain) A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.
• adj. Highly trained and competent.
• adj. Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch.

delay

• n. A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
• v. To put off until a later time; to defer.
• v. To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time.
• v. (obsolete) To allay; to temper.
• v. (obsolete) To dilute, temper.
• v. (obsolete) To assuage, quench, allay.

difference

• n. (uncountable) The quality of being different.
• n. (countable) A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.
• n. (countable) A disagreement or argument.
• n. (countable, uncountable) Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.
• n. (countable) The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.
• n. (obsolete) Choice; preference.
• n. (heraldry) An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be…
• n. (logic) The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.
• v. (transitive) To distinguish or differentiate.

disparity

• n. (uncountable) the state of being unequal; difference.
• n. incongruity.

dispute

• n. An argument or disagreement, a failure to agree.
• n. Verbal controversy; contest by opposing argument or expression of opposing views or claims; controversial…
• v. (intransitive) To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another.
• v. (transitive) To make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss.
• v. To oppose by argument or assertion; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question;…
• v. To strive or contend about; to contest.
• v. (obsolete) To struggle against; to resist.

disruption

• n. An interruption to the regular flow or sequence of something.
• n. A continuing act of disorder.

holdup

• n. Alternative spelling of hold-up.

interruption

• n. The act of interrupting, or the state of being interrupted.
• n. A time interval during which there is a cessation of something.

notch

• n. A V-shaped cut.
• n. Such a cut, used for keeping a record.
• n. An indentation.
• n. A mountain pass; a defile.
• n. (informal) A level or degree.
• v. (transitive) To cut a notch in (something).
• v. (transitive) To record (a score or similar) by making notches on something.
• v. (transitive) To join by means of notches.
• v. (transitive) To achieve (something).

open

• adj. (not comparable) not closed; accessible; unimpeded.
• adj. Not drawn together, closed, or contracted; extended; expanded.
• adj. (not comparable) Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.
• adj. (comparable) Receptive.
• adj. (not comparable) Public.
• adj. (not comparable) Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character.
• adj. (mathematics, logic, of a formula) Having a free variable.
• adj. (graph theory, of a walk) Whose first and last vertices are different.
• adj. (computing, not comparable, of a file, document, etc.) In current use; mapped to part of memory.
• adj. (business) Not fulfilled.
• adj. Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration.
• adj. (music, stringed instruments) Without any fingers pressing the string against the fingerboard.
• adj. Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty…
• adj. (phonetics) Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels.
• adj. (phonetics) Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure.
• adj. (phonetics, of a syllable) That ends in a vowel; not having a coda.
• adj. (computing) Made public, usable with a free licence.
• adj. (medicine) Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects…
• v. (transitive) To make something accessible or remove an obstacle to its being accessible.
• v. (transitive) To bring up (a topic).
• v. (transitive) To make accessible to customers or clients.
• v. (transitive) To start (a campaign).
• v. (intransitive) To become open.
• v. (intransitive) To begin conducting business.
• v. To enter upon; to begin.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen.
• v. (intransitive, poker) To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, poker) To reveal one's hand.
• v. (computing, transitive, intransitive, of a file, document, etc.) To load into memory for viewing or editing.
• v. To spread; to expand into an open or loose position.
• v. (obsolete) To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain.
• n. A sports event in which anybody can compete; as, the Australian Open.
• n. (electronics) a wire that is broken midway.
• n. (with the) Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location.
• n. (with the) Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view.

opening

• v. present participle of open.
• n. An act or instance of making or becoming open.
• n. Something that is open.
• n. An act or instance of beginning.
• n. Something that is a beginning.
• n. A vacant position, especially in an array.
• n. An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
• adj. (cricket) describing the first period of play, usually up to the fall of the first wicket; describing…

pass

• v. (heading) Physical movement.
• v. (heading) To change in state or status, to advance.
• v. (heading) To move through time.
• v. (heading) To be accepted.
• v. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
• v. (heading) To do or be better.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
• n. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise…
• n. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
• n. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
• n. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
• n. An attempt.
• n. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
• n. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
• n. A sexual advance.
• n. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
• n. (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into…
• n. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
• n. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit…
• n. (baseball) An intentional walk.
• n. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
• n. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
• n. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
• n. (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the…
• n. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
• n. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
• n. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

space

• n. (heading) Of time.
• n. (heading) Unlimited or generalized physical extent.
• n. (heading) A bounded or specific physical extent.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To roam, walk, wander.
• v. (transitive) To set some distance apart.
• v. To insert or utilise spaces in a written text.
• v. (transitive) To eject into outer space, usually without a space suit.

spread

• v. (transitive) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
• v. (transitive) To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.
• v. (transitive) To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
• v. (intransitive) To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
• v. (transitive) To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
• v. (intransitive) To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
• v. (transitive) To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
• v. (transitive) To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
• v. To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.
• n. The act of spreading.
• n. Something that has been spread.
• n. An expanse of land.
• n. A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
• n. A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
• n. A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
• n. (bread, etc.) Any form of food designed to be spread such as butters or jams.
• n. An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
• n. Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
• n. A numerical difference.
• n. (business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
• n. (trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another…
• n. (trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another…
• n. (trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery…
• n. (trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of…
• n. (trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.
• n. (finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items.
• n. (geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
• n. The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.