Gak vs Gap - What's the difference?
gak | gap |
Expressing disgust or trepidation.
* 2002 , "93 Percent Wise", the NT then and now'' (discussion on Internet newsgroup ''alt.messianic )
* 2008 , Erin McCarthy, You Don't Know Jack
* 2009 , Joel Rubinoff, It's not a dream: They're back'' (in ''Toronto Star , 19 March 2009)
The drug crystal meth.
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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.
* 2008 , Eileen Willis, Louise Reynolds, Helen Keleher, Understanding the Australian Health Care System ,
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* {{quote-book, year=1995, author=Robert E. Knoll, chapter=A University on the Defensive 1920-1927
, 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 nouns the difference between gak and gap
is that gak is {{cx|slang|lang=en}} The drug crystal meth while gap is an opening in anything made by breaking or parting.As an interjection gak
is expressing disgust or trepidation.As a verb gap is
to notch, as a sword or knife.gak
English
Etymology 1
Imitative of a gagging noise in the throat.Interjection
(en interjection)- proselytizing is, ultimately, a disgusting way of relating to people. whether it's amway, xnty, or discovery toys, it's just awful manipulation pride and disrespect. i hate it, i hate that i did it, it's yucky yucky yucky. puke puke gak vomit.
- Gak . She'd thought that's what it meant. Her heart slammed into her gut. No, no, no.
- Unsure what to make of it, I flicked on Entertainment Tonight (7:30 p.m. weekdays on NBC, Global) to find — gak — his sister Marie, who served her own headline-grabbing stint on Dancing two seasons ago, being treated like visiting royalty by the outrageously overcaffeinated Mary Hart.
Etymology 2
Noun
(-)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.}}