gap vs hole

gap and hole both are nouns.

gap and hole both are verbs.

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

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

gap: an open or empty space in or between things
hole: an opening into or through something

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

gap (noun)	hole (noun)
an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity	an opening deliberately made in or through something
a narrow opening	one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course
a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures	informal terms for the mouth
a difference (especially an unfortunate difference) between two opinions or two views or two situations	an opening into or through something
an open or empty space in or between things	a depression hollowed out of solid matter
a pass between mountain peaks; geomorphological term for the lowest point on a mountain ridge between two peaks	an unoccupied space
	informal terms for a difficult situation
	a fault

gap (verb)	hole (verb)
make an opening or gap in	make holes in
	hit the ball into the hole

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