gap vs rift

gap and rift both are nouns.

gap is a verb but rift is not a verb.

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

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

gap: an open or empty space in or between things
rift: a gap between cloud masses

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

gap (noun)	rift (noun)
an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity	a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
a narrow opening	a narrow fissure in rock
a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures	a gap between cloud masses
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)	rift (verb)
make an opening or gap in

Difference between gap and rift

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