Gap \Gap\, v. t. 1. To notch, as a sword or knife.
2. To make an opening in; to breach.
Their masses are gapp'd with our grape. --Tennyson.
Gap \Gap\ (g[a^]p), n. [OE. gap; cf. Icel. gap an empty space, Sw. gap mouth, breach, abyss, Dan. gab mouth, opening, AS. geap expanse; as adj., wide, spacious. See {Gape}.] 1. An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or defect; a vacant space or time; a hiatus; a mountain pass.
Miseries ensued by the opening of that gap. --Knolles.
It would make a great gap in your own honor. --Shak.
2. (A["e]ronautics) The vertical distance between two superposed surfaces, esp. in a biplane. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
{Gap lathe} (Mach.), a turning lathe with a deep notch in the bed to admit of turning a short object of large diameter.
{To stand in the gap}, to expose one's self for the protection of something; to make defense against any assailing danger; to take the place of a fallen defender or supporter.
{To stop a gap}, to secure a weak point; to repair a defect.
The Reagan administration's latest stated estimate of the budget deficit for all of the current fiscal year is $146.74 billion, but many private analysts predict a gap in the $160 billion to $175 billion range.
"When there's a gap as big as there is between our share price and (breakup value) you have to take it seriously just as a technical matter," Martin told the Journal.
Nonetheless, some analysts had expected a gap of as little as 600 million dollars, and the Australian currency slipped after the figure was released.
In gloomy remarks that appeared directed partly at congressional budget negotiators, Darman spoke of "across-the-board spending reductions of a totally unprecedented size" if the $100 billion gap can't be bridged by a budget compromise.
Yes, though the gap has narrowed.
Rosser said the consequences of the gender gap include loss of scholarships to girls _ chief among them National Merit Scholarships awarded to students who score highest on the Preliminary SAT (PSAT) in their junior year of high school.
How to bridge this generation gap?
Labor Secretary McLaughlin co-chairs a new Bush task force on the future work force and advises him on child care, in hopes of reducing his gender gap.
The four main cities of the Dutch randstadt have developed a positive yield gap over fixed rate mortgage money.
As chief executive of the state of Massachusetts he has steadfastly refused to permit the critical warning and communication facility _ the Ground Wave Emergency Network (GWEN) _ to be built in his state, leaving a serious gap in our nation's defense.
The gap is widening rather than narrowing.
The trade gap narrowed by 3.1 percent to $10.3 billion as exports fell by $317 million and imports dropped an even bigger $643 million.
France is still run by socialists, albeit of the market-friendly variety, and faces its own elections within a year or so. One snag is the British trade gap.
China has tried to blacklist French makers over the sale of Mirage jets to Taiwan last year. Both Airbus and Boeing want Chinese sales to plug the gap in aircraft deliveries over the next two to three years until profits at western airlines recover.
'The gap between expectations and delivery is so large, and unless donors get together to deliver, the peace process will fail.
What he found was a two-year gap when his earnings as a Senate staffer weren't recorded at all.
The gap is much wider for working couples with children under 17 years old.
"A radical overhaul of British management attitudes may be necessary" to close the gap with foreign countries, he added.
The $10.5 billion trade gap for September was down by $1.8 billion from the revised August trade deficit figure of $12.3 billion.
But wage rises may now be starting to pick up, in part because unemployment has fallen faster than expected. Most economists agree that Britain still has an output gap, although not on its size.
Nevertheless, he acknowledged that the IRS has failed to reduce the tax gap partly because audit rates have plummeted over the past decade.
This is because the principal elements of the gap lie not in the words in the audit report, but in the financial statements on which the auditor is reporting.
As a result, German and Japanese interest rates in particular have been climbing, narrowing a once-wide gap between yields available in securities of those countries and what global investors could get in the U.S. Treasury market.
To help fill this massive financing gap in the current quarter, the Treasury said it plans to sell $32.5 billion of notes and bonds this month to refund $20 billion of notes maturing on Aug. 15 and to raise $12.25 billion in cash.
He saw that for the first half of 1986, the gap between income reported for tax purposes and that reported to shareholders had jumped to 15 cents a share from only one cent a share a year before.
The study sees a gap between the perceptions of marketing directors and their bosses. In the area of strategic planning, 61 per cent of marketing directors said they made an important contribution.
The U.S. Commerce Department reported that the nation's trade deficit narrowed for the second consecutive month in July, to $7.58 billion, the smallest gap in almost five years.
Five years ago: President Reagan paid his first visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, placing a bouquet of yellow and pink flowers in the gap between the monument's granite walls.
Over the last three years, six local governments have fallen, usually leading to rule by a federal administrator. The gap between rich and poor is growing, as is an already sharp division between wealthy and backward regions.
As a result, the gap between yields on some junk bonds and Treasury bonds has widened to as much as eight percentage points, reflecting investor fears of a recession.