(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.
Stare
Definition:
(n.) The starling.
(v. i.) To look with fixed eyes wide open, as through fear, wonder, surprise, impudence, etc.; to fasten an earnest and prolonged gaze on some object.
(v. i.) To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, color, or brilliancy; as, staring windows or colors.
(v. i.) To stand out; to project; to bristle.
(v. t.) To look earnestly at; to gaze at.
(n.) The act of staring; a fixed look with eyes wide open.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(2) Seventeen patients had type I complex partial seizures (CPS) with three consecutive phases: initial motionless staring, oral-alimentary automatisms, and reactive quasipurposeful movements during impaired consciousness.
(3) An average of 241,273 viewers gathered round the television (hospital bed) clutching the remote (bag of grapes) staring at the small screen (out of the window).
(4) You're staring at the five-figure pay cheque you'll get… if… If!
(5) And so I would stare at a discarded popcorn box, a spilled drink or simply the darkness that disappeared into the seat ahead of me – listening carefully to quickening breaths – allowing the film’s soundscape to caress me.
(6) He stares down Cain, and works the count full after laying off some tricky pitches outside the zone that were trailing away from the righty.
(7) On Friday 10 June, five men charged with keeping Britain in the European Union gathered in a tiny, windowless office and stared into the abyss.
(8) Or are we too immature to see what is staring us in the face?
(9) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
(10) Who can complain of physical fear, of the nightmare of a baby eating its way out of your abdomen, of the loss of professional autonomy, staring at a stranger's idiotic grin?
(11) More than a third of children in Sweden's cities complain that their parents spend too much time staring at phones and tablet computers, leading doctors in the country to warn that children may be suffering emotional and cognitive damage.
(12) We’d get recognised when we went out, and I developed a bad crick in my spine because I was staring at the pavement so much.
(13) If someone you know from around the corner says it’s great, you get food, a roof over your head, you’ve got a radio and your friends can come and visit any time they like - it suddenly makes it a different picture.” Down on the seafront, Banjo Bai Koroma, the harbourmaster, stares out to sea, watching the Chinese fishing boats with little to do.
(14) What she should have said: An assertive interviewee would have fixed Paxman with a cold-eyed stare and said simply and unsmilingly: "No."
(15) A Tumblr page succinctly called Fuck Yeah, Cillian Murphy's Eyes consists of pages and pages of photographs of the actor, looking up, down, left, right, blinking, winking, staring, gazing – you name it.
(16) No initial staring or postictal confusion was noted.
(17) No clear heart rate and respiration patterns were noted during staring.
(18) Seizures often occur in clusters, consisting of motion arrest, decreased responsiveness, staring or blank eyes mostly with simple automatisms, and mild convulsive movements associated with focal paroxysmal discharges, most frequently in the temporal area.
(19) I have just written one about 50 "great" books, the research for which involved staring at lines of words on pages until first the lines, and subsequently the pages, ran out, and then thinking about them until I knew what I wanted to commit to paper.
(20) He's staring into the middle distance, clearly trying to process what's just happened to him.