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gat — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • backwater noun A place seen as remote, quiet, and untouched by modern trends or major events.
  • breach noun A failure to follow a law, agreement, or rule.
  • bum noun British informal term for the buttocks.
  • cavity noun A hollow space or hole inside something solid.
  • hiatus noun A gap or interruption in something that would otherwise be continuous.
  • hole noun A hollow space or opening in something solid, or a gap that goes all the way through.

Senses

gat is used for these senses in English:

  • backwater (idiomatic, usually, figurative) A remote place: somewhere that remains unaffected by new events, progresses, ideas, etc; any field of endeavor that figuratively resembles such a place.
  • breach A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee / embankment; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence.
  • bum (informal, _, or, _, childish, chiefly, Commonwealth) The anus.
  • cavity (dentistry) A small or large hole in a tooth caused by caries; often also a soft area adjacent to the hole also affected by caries.
  • hiatus An interruption, break, pause or absence.
  • hole An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
  • hole (stud poker) A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
  • hole (golf) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.

backwater — full definition

  1. noun A place seen as remote, quiet, and untouched by modern trends or major events.
  2. noun Still water held back or diverted by a dam, obstruction, or the current of a larger river.

breach — full definition

  1. noun A failure to follow a law, agreement, or rule.
  2. noun A gap made by breaking through something solid, such as a wall or defence.
  3. verb To break through or violate something.

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