gap vs tear

gap and tear both are nouns.

gap and tear both are verbs.

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

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

gap: an open or empty space in or between things
tear: 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, rip, snag, split, window.

gap (noun)	tear (noun)
an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity	a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands
a narrow opening	the act of tearing
a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures	an occasion for excessive eating or drinking
a difference (especially an unfortunate difference) between two opinions or two views or two situations	an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
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)	tear (verb)
make an opening or gap in	separate or cause to separate abruptly
	to separate or be separated by force
	strip of feathers
	move quickly and violently
	fill with tears or shed tears

Difference between gap and tear

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