What's the difference between gage and gape?

Gage


Definition:

  • (n.) A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperformance; security.
  • (n.) A glove, cap, or the like, cast on the ground as a challenge to combat, and to be taken up by the accepter of the challenge; a challenge; a defiance.
  • (n.) A variety of plum; as, the greengage; also, the blue gage, frost gage, golden gage, etc., having more or less likeness to the greengage. See Greengage.
  • (n.) To give or deposit as a pledge or security for some act; to wage or wager; to pawn or pledge.
  • (n.) To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.
  • (n.) A measure or standard. See Gauge, n.
  • (v. t.) To measure. See Gauge, v. t.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Measurements of acetylcholine-induced single-channel conductance and null potentials at the amphibian motor end-plate in solutions containing Na, K, Li and Cs ions (Gage & Van Helden, 1979; J. Physiol.
  • (2) 20 November 2008: Gage said he intended to question every soldier who witnessed the incident , whether or not they were directly responsible.
  • (3) Comprised of four octagonal half strain rings, the strain gage dynamometer measures the three moment load components at the boot.
  • (4) They lack the site that is ordinarily modified by pertussis toxin and their sequences vary from the canonical Gly-Ala-Gly-Glu-Ser (GAGES) amino acid sequence found in most other G protein alpha subunits.
  • (5) Experiments in dogs revealed that mercury-in-silastic strain gage apparatus can successfully be used to measure the biomechanical dynamics of the trachea and subglottis.
  • (6) A highly sensitive M136 gage with 0.5 microA complete deviation current is employed in the scheme, this permitting measurements of high electric resistance of dental hard tissues within a range of 1-200 M omega, painless for patients.
  • (7) Rosette strain gage, electromyography (EMG), and cineradiographic techniques were used to analyze loading patterns and jaw movements during mastication in Macaca fascicularis.
  • (8) The abuse of Mousa and nine other detainees "did not amount to an entrenched culture of violence in the [British] battlegroup – a reference to the rest of British forces in southern Iraq", Gage concludes.
  • (9) Stress wave propagation in a long bone with a progressively increasing defect in the bony cortex, simulating a healing fracture, was studied by recording the outputs of bonded semiconductor strain gages, proximal and distal to the defect.
  • (10) The FEM was validated against a normal strain-gaged turkey ulna, loaded in vivo in an identical fashion to the experimental ulnae.
  • (11) The lack is seen most clearly in the experimental and clinical literature on frontal lobe function, especially in relation to the kinds of changes seen in the Gage case.
  • (12) Furthermore the "head at risk" signs, except the gage-sign, were better to describe by BRI than by conventional x-rays.
  • (13) Inter-rat difference, leg positioning and strain gage placement were evaluated as sources of variability of applied strains.
  • (14) The angular accelerometer of vertebrates, the semi circular canal, is a pressure gage.
  • (15) Remnant gastric motility was studied during the digestive and interdigestive states by chronically implanted strain gage transducer (S.G.T.)
  • (16) Gage's report noted: "He must have seen the shocking condition of the detainees.
  • (17) The overall Berkson-Gage actuarial survival at 3 years, uncorrected for death from intercurrent disease, is 85.8%.
  • (18) Only 14 of those referred to in the Gage report are still in the army.
  • (19) The design and operation of a strain gage signal conditioning amplifier is described.
  • (20) The heart was driven at a steady heart rate through one electrode and very late premature beats were applied at various coupling times at another site through an electrode attached to the miniature strain gage.

Gape


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To open the mouth wide
  • (v. i.) Expressing a desire for food; as, young birds gape.
  • (v. i.) Indicating sleepiness or indifference; to yawn.
  • (v. i.) To pen or part widely; to exhibit a gap, fissure, or hiatus.
  • (v. i.) To long, wait eagerly, or cry aloud for something; -- with for, after, or at.
  • (n.) The act of gaping; a yawn.
  • (n.) The width of the mouth when opened, as of birds, fishes, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During juvenile and adult life stages, the process becomes somewhat removed from the fenestra for obvious reasons, but at a gape of about 40 to 50 degrees it inevitably must touch the "inferior tympanic membrane" and possibly also the tympanic ring.
  • (2) The data from this study suggest that modulation of wound gape during healing of RK wounds may involve transformation of the corneal keratocyte to a myofibroblast-like cell and the subsequent formation of intracellular stress fibers composed of f-actin, nonmuscle myosin, and alpha-actinin.
  • (3) This was similar, particularly given that, after all their early endeavour, an amateurish mistake undermined them before the half-hour mark as Aldo Simoncini tripped over his team-mate Luca Tosi’s foot in the six-yard box to allow Phil Jagielka to loop a free header into the gaping net.
  • (4) David Cameron spoke of the "thickness" of the glass ceiling she smashed through, again as if other women had been clambering merrily through the gaping governmental hole she had thoughtfully crafted ever since.
  • (5) Given the pressure on MP’s time, they tend to specialise on one or two countries if they pay any great attention to foreign affairs – only a very few, like the excellent Mike Gapes, can talk authoritatively about foreign policy across the piece.
  • (6) Brazil’s Roberto Firmino should have equalised 13 minutes into the second half but he skied a golden chance over the bar with the goal gaping.
  • (7) The venules showed gaping of the interendothelial junctions and lamination of the basal lamina.
  • (8) The empty shelves, as the library users want to demonstrate, represent the gaping void in their community if Milton Keynes council gets its way.
  • (9) The responses to salty, sour, and bitter solutions shared the same hedonically negative upper- and midface components but differed in the accompanying lower-face actions: lip pursing in response to sour and mouth gaping in response to bitter.
  • (10) The jaw gape was measured by means of an optical motion analysis system and calibrated at the level of the first molars.
  • (11) Rafa then spoons a volley long with an gaping court in front of him to bring up set point for Dimitrov.
  • (12) For ten subjects, ACF resulting from an axial load of 50 N and second molar gapes of 10 mm, 14 mm, 18 mm, and 22 mm were measured.
  • (13) The retropubic approach favors the gaping pubic symphysis.
  • (14) I am the sort of person who could walk past the gaping jaws of a lion without noticing.
  • (15) This protraction was produced by contraction of the geniohyoid and anterior digastric muscles, and occurred during the intercuspal (minimum gape) and opening phases of the masticatory cycle.
  • (16) They will also show signs of breathing problems including gaping beaks, coughing, sneezing and rattling wheezing.
  • (17) Winnowing by embiotocids is characterized by premaxillary protrusions repeated cyclically with reduced oral gape.
  • (18) These modifications include 1) decrease in the horizontal excursions of the mandible at the power phase, 2) decrease in the maximum gape, 3) insufficient occlusion at the power phase (or increase in the minimum gape), 4) irregular patterns of jaw movements, 5) facilitation of the chewing rate, 6) increase in the number of chewing cycles in a masticatory sequence (the process from acceptance of food to swallowing), and 7) decrease in jaw-closing muscle activities.
  • (19) The latter had collected Stephen Ireland’s pass beyond Palace’s back-line and wriggled round Wayne Hennessey, the open goal gaping, only to sky his finish horribly over the bar.
  • (20) The first parasitic diseases to receive attention were usually those with distinctive characteristics as well as serious consequences, such as "gapes" and lousiness.