(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.
Involuntarily
Definition:
(adv.) In an involuntary manner; not voluntarily; not intentionally or willingly.
Example Sentences:
(1) The case records of all patients admitted involuntarily to the psychiatric unit of a teaching general hospital between May 1, 1985, and Apr.
(2) The UNHCR said in a statement: “International law prescribes that no individual can be returned involuntarily to a country in which he or she has a well-founded fear of persecution.” The Tamil Refugee Council said it had spoken with a relative of one of the asylum seekers on board the vessel from India.
(3) All of this is of particular relevance today in light of the supreme Court's Donaldson decision, that mentally ill persons cannot be confined involuntarily if they are not dangerous and can live safely in the outside world.
(4) Jarvis's condition means that he occasionally ejaculates involuntarily.
(5) Refused asylum seekers can have their personal information disclosed to foreign governments in order to obtain travel documents if they are involuntarily deported, according to an immigration department manual.
(6) They did this voluntarily under instruction, and involuntarily by means of base-down or base-up wedge prisms.
(7) This Article discusses the rights of prisoners, pretrial detainees, and the involuntarily committed to receive high-cost medical treatments.
(8) When Jastrow asked volunteers to imagine looking at an object in the room the automatograph revealed that their hands involuntarily moved in that direction.
(9) ‘Washington is offering no choice besides disaster’ Geno, 37, Pennsylvania, voting for Jill Stein I’m in that middle class suffering from decades of neoliberalism – involuntarily in debt, in a dead-end job because of health coverage and few options.
(10) It is shown that the recruitment order of units in a series of reflexes (1) is unstable if the subject does not expect the stimulus; (2) is stable and identical with that in tonic activity if the subject subliminally facilitates the motoneurone pool before the reflex activation; (3) is stable and almost identical with that in tonic activity if the subject expects the stimulus and therefore involuntarily influences the motoneurone pool; (4) is stable and similar to that in phasic voluntary activity if the subject inhibits the motoneurone pool before the activation and the stimulus strength thus consequentially is increased; and (5) is influenced by blockade of the proprioceptive afferent impulses from the muscle.
(11) Involuntarily hospitalized patients oftentimes request judicial review of their commitments.
(12) Long-acting intramuscular antipsychotics were prescribed more frequently for involuntarily medicated patients.
(13) Both hypnotic and nonhypnotic subjects given passive instructions rated their pain reduction as occurring involuntarily, whereas those given active instructions reported that their pain was reduced through their active use of coping strategies.
(14) The issue of whether electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) causes brain damage was examined by the Supreme Court of Ontario when an involuntarily hospitalized patient attempted to overturn a treatment order for ECT made by a review board.
(15) Rudy's power is the ability to split into two, creating a sort of twin; this happens to him involuntarily, at moments when his emotions are heightened.
(16) As other compensatory phenomena in the motor system, RPN has features of instrumental (it improves the organisms control of environment) and classical (it is automatically established and involuntarily emitted) conditioning.
(17) A limited number of women are permanently infertile, but the percentage of those who at some point in their lives are involuntarily childless is higher.
(18) Although the United States Supreme Court has not offered a definite opinion, some states have established the qualified right of involuntarily committed patients to refuse treatment.
(19) The importance of psychological counselling for involuntarily childless couples has also been noted.
(20) A larger proportion of Maori are admitted involuntarily, especially under the Criminal Justice Act.