GAPPING
/หษกรฆpษชล/
13
Scrabble
18
WWF
G(2) A(1) P(3) P(3) I(1) N(1) G(2)
NWL/TWL ✓ Collins ✓ WWF ✓
Definition
/หษกรฆpษชล/
verb
- To notch, as a sword or knife.
- To make an opening in; to breach.
- 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.”
- To leave suddenly.
noun
- 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."
- The formation of a gap.
Source: Wiktionary
