Dapped vs Gapped - What's the difference?
dapped | gapped |
(dap)
(Bristol, Wales, usually in plural) A plimsoll.
* 1988, , Penguin Books (1988), page 169:
(Bristol) To run or go somewhere quickly.
To do some form of dipping, dabbing, or bouncing action.
Having a gap.
(gap)
An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
An opening allowing passage or entrance.
An opening that implies a breach or defect.
A vacant space or time.
A hiatus.
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, title= A mountain or hill pass.
(label) A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
(label) The regions between the outfielders.
The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will pay to the service provider and the scheduled fee for the item.
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, title= (label) (usually written as "the gap") The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities with regard to life expectancy, education, health, etc.
(label) To notch, as a sword or knife.
(label) To make an opening in; to breach.
(label) To check the size of a gap.
As verbs the difference between dapped and gapped
is that dapped is past tense of dap while gapped is past tense of gap.As an adjective gapped is
having a gap.dapped
English
Verb
(head)dap
English
Noun
(en noun)- I somehow expected them to shout obscenities, and was glad I had come ordinarily dressed, in a sports shirt, an old linen jacket, jeans and daps .
Verb
(dapp)- I'll just dap down to the shop.
- in metalworking is the technique of creating a hollow indentation, also known as doming, dishing or dapping .
- dapping is to rebound or adopt a rebounding action, e.g. to fish by letting the bait dip and bob lightly onto the water, in the manner that some insects lay eggs in the water.
Anagrams
* English onomatopoeias ----gapped
English
Adjective
(-)Verb
(head)gap
English
Noun
(en noun)The machine of a new soul, passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.}}
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- Under bulk billing the patient does not pay a gap , and the medical practitioner receives 85% of the scheduled fee.
Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win, passage=That left Maldonado with a 6.2-second lead. Alonso closed in throughout their third stints, getting the gap down to 4.2secs before Maldonado stopped for the final time on lap 41.}}
Prairie University: A History of the University of Nebraska, page=70 , passage=When Charles Bessey suddenly died in 1916 at age seventy, he left a gap that was impossible to fill; and though his protégé. R. J. Pool, was a man of intelligence and character, he did not have Bessey’s authority.}}