Gap vs. Sap

Gapnoun

An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.

Gapnoun

An opening allowing passage or entrance.

Gapnoun

An opening that implies a breach or defect.

Gapnoun

A vacant space or time.

Gapnoun

A hiatus, a pause in something which is otherwise continuous.

Gapnoun

A vacancy, deficit, absence, or lack.

Gapnoun

A mountain or hill pass.

Gapnoun

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

Gapnoun

(baseball) The regions between the outfielders.

Gapnoun

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

Gapnoun

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

Gapnoun

(genetics) An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment.

Gapverb

(transitive) To notch, as a sword or knife.

Gapverb

(transitive) To make an opening in; to breach.

Gapverb

(transitive) To check the size of a gap.

Gapnoun

An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or defect; a vacant space or time; a hiatus; a mountain pass.

Gapnoun

The vertical distance between two superposed surfaces, esp. in a biplane.

Gapverb

To notch, as a sword or knife.

Gapverb

To make an opening in; to breach.

Gapnoun

a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures;

Gapnoun

an open or empty space in or between things;

Gapnoun

a narrow opening;

Gapnoun

a pass between mountain peaks

Gapnoun

an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity;

Gapverb

make an opening or gap in

Sapnoun

(uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

Sapnoun

(uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.

Sapnoun

Any juice.

Sapnoun

(figurative) Vitality.

Sapnoun

a naive person; a simpleton

Sapnoun

A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.

Sapnoun

(military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.

Sapverb

(transitive) To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).

Sapverb

To exhaust the vitality of.

Sapverb

To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).

Sapverb

(transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.

Sapverb

To pierce with saps.

Sapverb

(transitive) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.

Sapverb

(transitive) To gradually weaken.

Sapverb

(intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.

Sapnoun

The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

Sapnoun

The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.

Sapnoun

A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.

Sapnoun

A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.

Sapverb

To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.

Sapverb

To pierce with saps.

Sapverb

To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.

Sapverb

To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.

Sapnoun

a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant

Sapnoun

a person who lacks good judgment

Sapnoun

a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people

Sapverb

deplete;

Sapverb

excavate the earth beneath

Sap

Sap is a fluid transported in xylem cells (vessel elements or tracheids) or phloem sieve tube elements of a plant. These cells transport water and nutrients throughout the plant.