(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.
Goggle
Definition:
(v. i.) To roll the eyes; to stare.
(a.) Full and rolling, or staring; -- said of the eyes.
(v. i.) A strained or affected rolling of the eye.
(v. i.) A kind of spectacles with short, projecting eye tubes, in the front end of which are fixed plain glasses for protecting the eyes from cold, dust, etc.
(v. i.) Colored glasses for relief from intense light.
(v. i.) A disk with a small aperture, to direct the sight forward, and cure squinting.
(v. i.) Any screen or cover for the eyes, with or without a slit for seeing through.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the end of each session, he is forced to don a pair of blackened goggles, ear muffs are placed over his head, and he is ordered to place the palms of his hands together so that a guard can grasp his thumbs to lead him away.
(2) The use of goggles appeared to provide the greatest degree of protection.
(3) Gloves were the barrier worn most frequently when appropriate (74%), followed by goggles (13%), gowns (12%), and masks (1%).
(4) Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face-to-face — just by putting on goggles in your home," he said.
(5) The answer, for the billionaire entrepreneur, is contained in the purchase of Oculus, the maker of the distinctive $350 Rift headset – which looks like a massive pair of opaque diving goggles.
(6) The science is too young for certainties though; better to goggle and stare at its curious ways.
(7) In these cases, optic nerve function can be monitored by means of flash-evoked visual potentials elicited by use of a LED-goggle stimulator.
(8) The glass goggle, which was designed specifically for use at the 510.5-nm wavelength, sustained no visible damage from the specified laser light at the highest power levels the authors could achieve.
(9) Dressed in protective suits, masks and goggles, they have been given just two hours to survey the damage to the houses they have been barred from entering since the triple disaster struck north-east Japan on the afternoon of 11 March.
(10) The authors studied the performance of laser protective eyewear currently in use at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: a goggle with a cellulose propionate filter from Glendale Protective Technologies and a goggle with a glass optical filter from Spectra Optics.
(11) The use of gloves and goggles as preventive measures to protect the aeromedical crew from the potential hazards of body fluid contact and transmission of disease during their treatment of patients is low.
(12) A dark brown plastic goggle has been found which meets the theoretical criteria previously postulated for such protection.
(13) In one category, the health care workers entering the child's room did not wear masks and goggles; in the other category, the workers did wear masks and goggles.
(14) Rwanda is accused of equipping M23 with sophisticated arms, including night-vision goggles and 120mm mortars.
(15) But we're growing out of the initial goggle-eyed utopian phase that new technological leaps tend to induce, and settling down into the reality of the power of the crowd.
(16) It was Collision, aka 22-year-old graduate trainee Brett Collis, who took the £1,000 prize in this new event in which pale young men sporting special goggles synched with flying cameras navigated an illuminated 3D obstacle course in the dark.
(17) We describe here a comparison of three methods for producing VOR increases in cats: (i) optokinetic drum; (ii) a pair of 2.2 x telescopic lenses; (iii) Fresnel lens goggles.
(18) Many in the crowd were wearing surgical masks, hard hats, goggles and construction-style eye protectors.
(19) According to this logo, the future is so bright, we've got to wear goggles.
(20) This limitation is avoided by viewing through argon filter goggles with the indirect ophthalmoscope while applying treatment with the endophotocoagulation argon laser probe through a pars plana entry site.