gap vs breach

gap and breach both are nouns.

gap and breach both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
gap	Yes	No	Yes	No
breach	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, breach is a hyponym of gap; that is, breach is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than gap:

gap: an open or empty space in or between things
breach: an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)

Other hyponyms of gap include pocket, diastema, nodes of Ranvier, Ranvier's nodes, foramen, hiatus, chasm, cleft, crack, crevice, fissure, scissure, hole, mouth, rift, rent, rip, snag, split, tear, window.

As verbs, gap and breach are synonyms defined as:

gap and breach: make an opening or gap in

gap (noun)	breach (noun)
an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity	a failure to perform some promised act or obligation
a narrow opening	a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures	an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)
a difference (especially an unfortunate difference) between two opinions or two views or two situations
an open or empty space in or between things
a pass between mountain peaks; geomorphological term for the lowest point on a mountain ridge between two peaks

gap (verb)	breach (verb)
make an opening or gap in	make an opening or gap in
	act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises

Difference between gap and breach

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