The difference between Gap and Hole

When used as nouns, gap means an opening in anything made by breaking or parting, whereas hole means a hollow place or cavity.

When used as verbs, gap means to notch, as a sword or knife, whereas hole means to make holes in (an object or surface).

check bellow for the other definitions of Gap and Hole

  1. Gap as a noun:

    An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.

    Examples:

    "He made a gap in the fence by kicking at a weak spot."

  2. Gap as a noun:

    An opening allowing passage or entrance.

    Examples:

    "We can slip through that gap between the buildings."

  3. Gap as a noun:

    An opening that implies a breach or defect.

    Examples:

    "There is a gap between the roof and the gutter."

  4. Gap as a noun:

    A vacant space or time.

    Examples:

    "I have a gap in my schedule next Tuesday."

  5. Gap as a noun:

    A hiatus.

    Examples:

    "I'm taking a gap."

  6. Gap as a noun:

    A mountain or hill pass.

    Examples:

    "The exploring party went through the high gap in the mountains."

  7. Gap as a noun (Sussex):

    A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).

    Examples:

    "At Birling Gap we can stop and go have a picnic on the beach."

  8. Gap as a noun (baseball):

    The regions between the outfielders.

    Examples:

    "Jones doubled through the gap."

  9. Gap as a noun (Australia, for a medical or pharmacy item):

    The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will pay to the service provider and the scheduled fee for the item.

  10. Gap as a noun (AU):

    (usually written as "the gap") The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities with regard to life expectancy, education, health, etc.

  11. Gap as a noun (genetics):

    An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment.

  1. Gap as a verb (transitive):

    To notch, as a sword or knife.

  2. Gap as a verb (transitive):

    To make an opening in; to breach.

  3. Gap as a verb (transitive):

    To check the size of a gap.

    Examples:

    "I gapped all the spark plugs in my car, but then realized I had used the wrong manual and had made them too small."

  1. Gap as a noun:

  1. Hole as a noun:

    A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure. An opening in a solid.

    Examples:

    "There’s a hole in my shoe.  nowrap Her stocking has a hole in it."

    "There’s a hole in my bucket."

  2. Hole as a noun:

    In games. A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass. The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes. The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman. A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in future, control with a friendly pawn. A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is. In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.

    Examples:

    "I played 18 holes yesterday.  nowrap The second hole today cost me three strokes over par."

    "The shortstop ranged deep into the hole to make the stop."

  3. Hole as a noun (archaeology, slang):

    An excavation pit or trench.

  4. Hole as a noun (figuratively):

    A weakness, a flaw

    Examples:

    "I have found a hole in your argument."

  5. Hole as a noun (informal):

    A container or receptacle.

    Examples:

    "car hole;  brain hole'"

  6. Hole as a noun (physics):

    In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.

  7. Hole as a noun (computing):

    A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.

  8. Hole as a noun (slang anatomy):

    An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.

    Examples:

    "Just shut your hole!"

  9. Hole as a noun (Ireland, Scotland, particularly in the phrase "get one's hole"):

    Sex, or a sex partner.

    Examples:

    "Are you going out to get your hole tonight?"

  10. Hole as a noun (informal, with "the"):

    Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.

  11. Hole as a noun (slang):

    An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.

    Examples:

    "His apartment is a hole!"

  12. Hole as a noun (figurative):

    Difficulty, in particular, debt.

    Examples:

    "If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging."

  13. Hole as a noun (graph theory):

    A chordless cycle in a graph.

  1. Hole as a verb (transitive):

    To make holes in (an object or surface).

    Examples:

    "Shrapnel holed the ship's hull."

  2. Hole as a verb (transitive, by extension):

    To destroy.

    Examples:

    "She completely holed the argument."

  3. Hole as a verb (intransitive):

    To go into a hole.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Ben Jonson"

  4. Hole as a verb (transitive):

    To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.

    Examples:

    "Woods holed a standard three foot putt"

  5. Hole as a verb (transitive):

    To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.

    Examples:

    "to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars"

  1. Hole as a verb:

  1. Hole as an adjective:

    Examples:

    "Such was the arrangement of the alphabet over the hole North"

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