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单词 to stop, to fill , to supply a gap
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to stop, to fill (in or up), to supply a gap
b. Phrases. to stop, to fill (in or up), to supply a gap: to make up a deficiency, supply a want, fill a vacant space. Also, to bridge (also close) a gap.
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the mind > possession > supply > provide or supply [verb (intransitive)] > supply a deficiency
to stop, to fill (in or up), to supply a gap?1523
succenturiate1630
the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > make complete [verb (transitive)] > complete, fill up, or make up > by supplying what is wanting
performa1382
supplyc1480
upmake1485
to make up1488
mend?a1505
to stop, to fill (in or up), to supply a gap?1523
to eke out1596
help out (also through)1600
size1608
echea1616
inch out1620
to eke up1633
supplete1664
lengthen1670
supplement1749
to husband out1762
sort1880
piecenc1900
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > fact or action of being connected or connecting > be or become connected [verb (intransitive)] > connect to give continuity
to bridge (also close) a gap1879
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xlixv A woman can nat gete her lyueng honestly with spynnynge on the dystaffe, but it stoppeth a gappe.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxxv All though thei daily lost people..yet their numbre was restored, and the gappe euer filled.
1655 E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 222 He has already hindred 500li..which would stop many a gapp now, it may be more then 2000li will at another time.
1711 J. Swift Lett. (1767) III. 217 I make a present of it [money] to stop some gaps.
1776 F. Bull Let. 28 Oct. in J. Wilkes Corr. (1805) V. 85 I only mean to stop the gap for the present.
a1832 F. D. Maurice Moral & Metaphysical Philos. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) II. 653/1 Theology would be..brought in to supply gaps in the system which philosophy had tried to construct.
1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. v. 131 Invented merely to fill up a gap in chronology.
1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xix. 311 He had a few levies with him to fill the gaps in the old legions.
1879 R. A. Proctor Pleasant Ways Sci. xiii. 326 The gap between the lowest savage and the highest ape is not easily bridged.
1927 Cherwell 25 June 238/1 A few days ago a London journalist was commenting..on the cleavage between..the Oxford Set and the young officers of the Guards... However, Mr. Drury Lowe is the one person..who has successfully bridged this gap, if gap there be.
1944 Ann. Reg. 1943 50 The production of coal..had fully kept pace with consumption and in fact somewhat exceeded it, so closing the previous ‘gap’ of eleven million tons annually.
1950 S. E. Toulmin Exam. Place of Reason in Ethics xv. 223 All his experience and wisdom are needed to bridge the gap between facts and values.
1957 BBC Handbk. 84 ‘Forces' Requests’..is an attempt to close the gap between National Servicemen all over the world and their families at home in Britain.
1961 Ann. Reg. 1960 500 Efforts to ‘bridge the gap’ between the Common Market and the European Free Trade Association continued.
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