(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.
Gare
Definition:
(n.) Coarse wool on the legs of sheep.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study, we demonstrated that a second "coupling element," identified as O2S, must be present to allow a single copy of either the gibberellin response element (GARE) or the abscisic acid response element (ABRE) to mediate their hormonal effects in the barley Amy32b alpha-amylase gene promoter.
(2) It has been twinned with London’s St Pancras Old church – close to the St Pancras Eurostar terminal – since 2007 • 5 rue de Belzunce, paroissesvp.fr Secrets Temple Ganesh Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy At the north end of the Gare du Nord, just past the elevated metro line, is a colourful Hindu temple dedicated to the god Ganesh.
(3) At the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, one stop from the Gare du Nord station that will welcome British fans, Didier Deschamps’ exciting side will attempt to pull the country out of the “spiral of negativity” that organisers say has blighted preparations in the opening game against Romania.
(4) Police unions denied outright that racism was at play in what campaigners say are continual, arbitrary and at times insulting and aggressive stops made on housing estates, or at Paris locations like the Gare du Nord, or in "white" places such as around the Eiffel tower, where, they say, black people are stopped and asked what they are doing.
(5) If so, please contact BTP.” Supt Gill Murray previously said the alleged racist chanting was reported by a member of the public who was “disgusted” by the behaviour of the men, who had travelled on the 18.40 service from Paris Gare du Nord.
(6) The first submarines of the US’s Polaris fleet arrived at their new base in the Holy Loch a few months later, and came and went in relays until the cold war was over, overlapping for a time with the Royal Navy’s missile submarines that had begun to sail from their headquarters at Faslane, a few miles across the Clyde in the Gare Loch.
(7) A short walk around the Barbès district in northern Paris, where almost all of these nationalities are represented in the same tiny, overcrowded space, provides both a vivid snapshot of the diversity of this population and a neat lesson in French colonial history The Gare du Nord, at the heart of this district, is frontier territory.
(8) By the time they reached Gare du Nord, the prime minister had decided to curtail his planned talks with the French president in order to get himself back to Britain.
(9) But it was through acting that I met myself.” On graduation she moved to a rundown flat near Gare du Nord station and appeared in the TV series of Highlander at 18, after which she was never unemployed.
(10) Their latest switcheroo sees Gare Ornano, a high-ceilinged station which had lain vacant since 1939, become an eco-focused cafe, restaurant, garden and urban farm.
(11) The alleged racist chanting on the 18.40 service from Paris Gare du Nord was reported by a disgusted member of the public, Supt Gill Murray said.
(12) The Gare du Midi neighbourhood is seen by many as a seedy area where you don’t want to hang around if you can help it (and with a Eurostar ticket you can easily hop on a train to the smartly renovated Central Station).
(13) Our results suggest that the specific sequence serving as a coupling element in a given gene promoter will greatly affect where and when the GARE or ABRE will be able to regulate transcription.
(14) Instead of a train from St Pancras to Paris Gare du Nord taking two-and-a-quarter hours, journeys were already lasting closer to four hours before the train breakdown and points problems hit services.
(15) Lindsay Duncan and Jim Broadbent star as Meg and Nick, a pair of sparring academics whose 30th anniversary hits the buffers as their train pulls into Paris's Gare du Nord.
(16) I was staying at the Le Robinet d’Or , just east of the Gare de l’Est and Gare du Nord train stations and a few steps west of Canal Saint-Martin.
(17) The incident took place across the street from an Audi auto factory and the train lines leading to the Gare du Midi railway station used by Eurostar trains to London and Thalys trains to Paris .
(18) From the hill overlooking Gare Loch, the black-finned body of the nuclear submarine looks as benign as a whale, and almost insignificant against the hulking mountains beyond.
(19) We have a duty to say what we have to say, and with drawings – there’s a citizenry out there waiting!” “Yes,” came a voice in agreement, “the baker on Boulevard Raspail is hurting with us.” “Hmm,” said a colleague, “but what about the baker in the Gare du Nord [where there was a riot by youths from the mostly Arab suburbs in 2007]?
(20) The rioters at the Gare du Nord or in the banlieues also often describe themselves as soldiers in a "long war' against France and Europe .