📖 Definitions of "Gapping"
verb
- 1
To notch, as a sword or knife.
- 2
To make an opening in; to breach.
- 3
To check the size of a gap.
"I gapped all the spark plugs in my car, but then realized I had used the wrong manual and had made them too small."
- 4
To leave suddenly.
noun
- 1
A type of ellipsis that occurs in the non-initial conjuncts of coordinate structures, and usually elides minimally a finite verb and further any non-finite verbs that are present. Example: "Some ate bread, and others rice."
- 2
The formation of a gap.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Gapping"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| pseudogappingnoun | (linguistics) A form of ellipsis that elides most but not all of a non-finite verb phrase, as in "He drinks milk more often than he does water". |
| fillgapnoun | (rare, literal, figurative) That which fills a gap, or serves as a short-term temporary fix until something better comes along. |
| g-droppingnoun | In English, the act of pronouncing unstressed word-final /ɪŋ/ as [ɪn] or [ən], rendered by the omission of the letter g in spelling, such as jumpin' for jumping. |
| gapesingnoun | (UK, dialect, West Country, Herefordshire, archaic) The act of gazing about; sightseeing. |
| gappernoun | Someone who is on or has done a gap year, or a break from study. |
| gapenoun | A large opening. |
| gape seednoun | (obsolete) Something to be gaped at; a strange sight. |
| gistingnoun | (rare, nonstandard) summary, summarization/summarisation |
| gerundnoun | (grammar) A verbal form that functions as a verbal noun. (In English, a gerund has the same spelling as a present participle, but functions differently; however, this distinction may be ambiguous or unclear and so is no longer made in some modern texts such as A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language and The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language) |
| gapeseednoun | Alternative form of gape seed. [(obsolete) Something to be gaped at; a strange sight.] |
| gapernoun | One who gapes; a starer. |
| gerund-participlenoun | (grammar) The form of an English verb that ends in -ing and can function as a noun, an adjective, or a progressive verb. |
| gapelinenoun | (ornithology) The outer edge of a bird's gape, especially when enlarged in a chick or immature bird. |
| gappynessnoun | The condition of being gappy |
| gawpingnoun | (British) The action of the verb gawp. |
| ergative | (grammar) With the subject of a transitive construction having grammatical cases or thematic relations different from those of an intransitive construction. |
| gamingnoun | The playing of a game. |
| voice glidenoun | (pronunciation) The brief and obscure neutral vowel sound that sometimes occurs between two consonants in an unaccented syllable (represented by the apostrophe), as in able. |
| gerundivenoun | (in Latin grammar) A verbal adjective that describes obligation or necessity, equivalent in form to the future passive participle. |
| geminationnoun | (phonetics) The phenomenon of a consonant being pronounced for an audibly longer period of time than is normal; an instance of such lengthened pronunciation. |
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