单词 | to stop, to fill , to supply a gap |
释义 | > as lemmasto 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. ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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