air gap
noun
1
: an air-filled gap in a magnetic or electric circuit (as the space between the field-magnet poles and the armature in a dynamo or motor)
2
: wind gap
3
: the vertical distance between the point where water enters a plumbing fixture (as a tub) and the level at which it would overflow
Word History
First Known Use
1878, in the meaning defined at sense 1
- stay off
- stay on
- stay on her boss's good side
- stay one jump ahead
- stay out
- stay out of
- stay out of (something)
- stay out of someone's way
- stay out of something
- stay out of the way
- stay out of trouble
- stay over
- stay pin
- stay put
- stay tackle
- stay tap
- stay the course
- stay the night
- stay tube
- stay tuned
- stay up
- stay with
- stay woke
- stay-at-home
- stay-at-homes