(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.
Pape
Definition:
(n.) A spiritual father; specifically, the pope.
Example Sentences:
(1) A debate in 1998 in International Security magazine saw the Chicago academic, Robert Pape, barely challenged in his view that only around five of the 115 cases of sanctions imposed since the war could claim any plausible efficacy.
(2) It is now apparent that the principal lesions of perinatal asphyxia--cerebral hypoxic-ischaemic damage and IVH--are pathogenetically interrelated, a fact that has long been suspected by pathologists (Pape and Wigglesworth, 1979).
(3) A periplasmic complex between PapD and PapE was purified from cells that overproduced and accumulated these proteins in the periplasm.
(4) The mean pulmonary arterial pressure at rest (PAPR) and with exercise (PAPE) and four indices measured from the plain chest radiograph were considered.
(5) Pape Souaré’s substitution at half-time was presumably so Palace’s left-back could have his neck iced, so many times did he find himself whirling around in a funk trying to work out exactly where Mahrez had shimmied off to now.
(6) The defence needs a proper overhaul too, with Pape Souaré out injured and the rest of the backline having looked fairly clueless.
(7) If you leave aside Champagne, which has no serious rivals at the top end, I think you can find very good alternatives to pricey red Bordeaux, Sauternes, red and white Burgundy, northern Rhône Syrah and Châteauneuf du Pape in other countries, and sometimes within France itself.
(8) The Senegalese tailor Pape Ibrahima N'diaye, a Paris institution known as "Monsieur Pape", is a favourite of French lawyers, politicians and businessmen.
(9) Serological evidence is presented that suggests that a minor pilus component(s), presumably produced by the papE, -F, or -G gene, is the actual binding moiety in the digalactoside-specific interaction of Pap pilus-adhesin.
(10) Antibodies raised against this complex reacted with purified wild-type P pili but not with pili purified from a papE mutant.
(11) A brand new selection of 48 vintage and non-vintage wines will will go on sale in its 600 UK supermarket branches in September, followed by bottles from theworld-renowned Châteauneuf-du-Pape wineries.
(12) The nucleotide sequences for the genes encoding the tip-associated proteins PapE, PapF, and PapG were determined for two E. coli clones expressing P pili of serotypes F11 and F7(2) and compared with the corresponding sequences established for proteins of F13 pili.
(13) We propose that PapE and PapF are minor pilins in the Pap pilus.
(14) Antisera specific for different Pap proteins were used to demonstrate that a pilin protein, either PapA or PapE, together with both PapG and PapF, must be exposed on the cell surface to allow E. coli to bind.
(15) From Wednesday, the up-market grocer is offering a choice of 14 wines, including a Châteauneuf Du Pape, two Sancerres and a Chablis, under its “pick your own offers” scheme which gives MyWaitrose cardholders 20% off 10 items of their choice .
(16) In it, the authors reveal a note by Tracfin, the French anti-money laundering authority, which states that in April 2010, Sassou N'Guesso ordered 91 suits from Pape for €276,000.
(17) The products of the genes papE-G are essential for digalactoside-specific hemagglutination and for attachment to urinary bladder cells.
(18) Using immuno-electron microscopy we have found that Pap-pili are heteropolymers composed of the major pilin, PapA, the minor pilins, PapE and PapF, and the adhesin, PapG.
(19) The Scot had charged from deep, splitting Damien Delaney and Pape Souaré in the process, and slid a fine finish back across Hennessey and into the far corner.
(20) We present data showing that, like the major pilus subunit, PapE varies its structure and antigenic properties among pili of different serotypes.