What's the difference between beard and jaw?

Beard


Definition:

  • (n.) The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.
  • (n.) The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat.
  • (n.) The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds
  • (n.) The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
  • (n.) The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle.
  • (n.) The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster.
  • (n.) In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
  • (n.) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain.
  • (n.) A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
  • (n.) That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
  • (n.) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
  • (n.) An imposition; a trick.
  • (v. t.) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
  • (v. t.) To oppose to the gills; to set at defiance.
  • (v. t.) To deprive of the gills; -- used only of oysters and similar shellfish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While the papers in this country and the New Yorker were crowing about how Beard had, through her own gutsy initiative, tamed her trolls, another woman – Anita Sarkeesian, a Canadian-American journalist – was being trolled.
  • (2) I've seen DJs in clubs with beards that make them look more like Charles Manson on a scruffy day than the cutting edge of cool, but, apparently, the two are synonymous these days.
  • (3) With the help of yellow contact lenses, a false beard, nose and teeth, he has taken on the demeanour of a feral animal.
  • (4) Koji Uehara, the one without a beard, just picked up from where he left off in the regular season, and continued to destroy opponents.
  • (5) It's hard to imagine a more masculine character than Thor, who is based on the god of thunder of Norse myth: he's the strapping, hammer-wielding son of Odin who, more often than not, sports a beard and likes nothing better than smacking frost giants.
  • (6) Academic and TV historian Mary Beard has disclosed her innovative approach to dealing with her vitriolic Twitter trolls – writing them a job reference.
  • (7) And in a broader sense, the sort of Conservatives who think intelligently and strategically – and there are more of them than you think – fret that a bearded 66-year-old socialist has ignited political debate in a way that absolutely nobody in the mainstream predicted.
  • (8) Some of them are foreign, they have long beards and we don't want to go near them.
  • (9) In his passport photograph, applied for in June 2008, Brown has grown a beard and his temples have gone grey.
  • (10) As the sun rises over the precipitous streets of SanFrancisco's North Beach, just before 7am, there is a truly wonderful scene: corporation men spray the sidewalk while a gathering of bearded folk sip espressos at Caffe Trieste on the corner of Vallejo and Grant streets.
  • (11) Taylor, a sixty-something man with a neatly trimmed beard and a palpable pride in his business, has made "a couple of small sales" so far today, but footfall in the town is pretty underwhelming, and, in the market, almost non-existent.
  • (12) His beard, axillary hair and pubic hair were all normal.
  • (13) I do need a haircut, but I have had beards for many years.
  • (14) Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had grown a beard in the eight days before he carried out the attack and told friends “the significance of the beard is religious”, prosecutor François Molins told a press conference.
  • (15) Reading East's Rob Wilson attacked a whingeing bearded lefty, the archbishop of Canterbury.
  • (16) "Shave your beard if you're brown, and you best salute the crown, or they'll do you like Brazilians and shoot your arse down."
  • (17) Cue start of the second half, and he's back on, beard and all."
  • (18) The local undertakers were pleased to discover the great Henty to be the man they had always imagined - a full-bearded giant, stern and wise, dressed like a warrior hero or - much the same thing - a Victorian gentleman with the whiff of gunpowder and the clash of sabres about him.
  • (19) After weeks of unwashed silence he's finally dismantled his crisis-beard and returned his woollen catastrophe-hat to the BBC's Break In Case Of Homelessness box.
  • (20) Outside, there’s no sign of life except one bearded oaf on a chopper and a kid at the back door, holding a picture of Hot Fuss-era Brandon Flowers , praying for a brief encounter.

Jaw


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.
  • (n.) Hence, also, the bone itself with the teeth and covering.
  • (n.) In the plural, the mouth.
  • (n.) Fig.: Anything resembling the jaw of an animal in form or action; esp., pl., the mouth or way of entrance; as, the jaws of a pass; the jaws of darkness; the jaws of death.
  • (n.) A notch or opening.
  • (n.) A notched or forked part, adapted for holding an object in place; as, the jaw of a railway-car pedestal. See Axle guard.
  • (n.) One of a pair of opposing parts which are movable towards or from each other, for grasping or crushing anything between them, as, the jaws of a vise, or the jaws of a stone-crushing machine.
  • (n.) The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.
  • (n.) Impudent or abusive talk.
  • (v. i.) To scold; to clamor.
  • (v. t.) To assail or abuse by scolding.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, the effect of prior jaw motion and the effect of the recording site on the EMG amplitudes and on the vertical dimension of minimum EMG activity have not been documented.
  • (2) Radiologists may encounter patients with fixed dental prostheses that may produce image distortion on MRI scans of the face and jaw.
  • (3) Based on the findings of our recent longitudinal study on the abnormalities of the dentition in cleidocranial dysplasia (CCD), a hypothesis has been proposed, which makes it possible to predict time of onset of formation of supernumerary teeth and their location in the jaws.
  • (4) The EMG silent periods (SP) produced in the open-close-clench cycle and jaw-jerk reflex were compared for duration before and after treatment with an occlusal bite splint.
  • (5) In 12 patients with lower macrognathia we have applied a technique allowing to prevent the postsurgical recidives of the jaw deformation.
  • (6) At the end of treatment the sagittal jaw relationship was significantly improved.
  • (7) In one horse, the superior aspect of the right ascending ramus of the lower jaw below the coronoid process revealed a gunshot wound; the other skeletons showed no evidence of trauma.
  • (8) Noxious conditioning stimulation of a tooth led to a temporary decrease of the threshold for the jaw-opening reflex elicited from a contralateral or adjacent tooth; only conditioning stimulation at an intensity producing a marked arousal reaction was effective in this respect.
  • (9) The observers assessed the panoramic and periapical radiographs of the teeth, which were evenly distributed throughout the jaws with a 50% probability that either an osteolytic or sclerotic lesion was present.
  • (10) The jaw deviated to the right when he opened his mouth fully.
  • (11) As an initial feasibility study of computer-controlled radiation therapy, its application to produce wedge-shaped dose distributions by moving the collimator jaws has been evaluated.
  • (12) It is important that the dentist knows about disturbances of blood coagulation during and after hemo-dialysis, so that he avoids administration of platelet-inhibiting medication like aspirin and that he recognizes radiologically visible signs of insufficient dialysis in the jaws.
  • (13) Experimentally induced tongue contact with a variety of solid surfaces during lapping (an activity involving accumulation of a liquid bolus in the valleculae) induced neither increased jaw opening nor the additional EMG pattern.
  • (14) Incisal occlusion was shown to have an important part to play in the amount and direction of jaw movement.
  • (15) Hemimasticatory spasm is a rare disorder of the trigeminal nerve that produces involuntary jaw closure due to paroxysmal unilateral contraction of jaw-closing muscles.
  • (16) When, against Real Madrid, Nani was sent off, Ferguson, jaws agape, interrupting his incessant mastication, roared from the bench, uprooting his assistant and marched to the touchline.
  • (17) It is also possible for patients with underlying psychosis to present first to the dental surgeon for jaw correction.
  • (18) A hypothesis is presented as to how certain occlusal relationships and habitual patterns of jaw use may predispose an individual to TMJ internal derangements.
  • (19) Lastly, the CVA indicated major differences across the genus to be located in the teeth and jaws, suggesting diet might be an important distinguishing feature in Colobus.
  • (20) Before and one, two, three, and seven days after the experiment, the following measures were made: (1) superficial masseter and anterior temporalis muscle tenderness (pain threshold), (2) jaw movement (opening and lateral excursion), and (3) current pain level for the right and left sides of the jaw.

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