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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

stop-gap en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (UK, alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of stopgap.
    alt of stopgap

stop-gap en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (UK, alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of stopgap.
    alt of stopgap
    • [A] bit of ink and paper which has long been an innocent wrapping or stop-gap may at last be laid open under the one pair of eyes which have knowledge enough to turn it into the opening of a catastrophe. 1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XLI, in Middlemarch […], volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book IV, page 347:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
stop-gaps Number=Plur lexicographic

stop-gap en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (UK, alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of stopgap.
    alt of stopgap

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
stop-gapping Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
stop-gaps Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
stop-gapped Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
stop-gapped Tense=Past lexicographic