gap vs pocket

gap and pocket both are nouns.

gap and pocket both are verbs.

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

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

gap: an open or empty space in or between things
pocket: an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck

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

gap (noun)	pocket (noun)
an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity	a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles
a narrow opening	an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck
a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures	(anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)
a difference (especially an unfortunate difference) between two opinions or two views or two situations	a small isolated group of people
an open or empty space in or between things	a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly
a pass between mountain peaks; geomorphological term for the lowest point on a mountain ridge between two peaks	a supply of money
	an enclosed space
	a hollow concave shape made by removing something
	(bowling) the space between the headpin and the pins behind it on the right or left

gap (verb)	pocket (verb)
make an opening or gap in	put in one's pocket
	take unlawfully

Difference between gap and pocket

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