gap vs rip

gap and rip both are nouns.

gap and rip both are verbs.

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

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

gap: an open or empty space in or between things
rip: an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart

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

gap (noun)	rip (noun)
an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity	the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
a narrow opening	a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current
a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures	an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
a difference (especially an unfortunate difference) between two opinions or two views or two situations	a dissolute man in fashionable society
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)	rip (verb)
make an opening or gap in	criticize or abuse strongly and violently
	tear or be torn violently
	cut (wood) along the grain
	move precipitously or violently
	take without the owner's consent

Difference between gap and rip

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