(n.) The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and teeth, between the lips and the pharynx; the buccal cavity.
(n.) An opening affording entrance or exit; orifice; aperture;
(n.) The opening of a vessel by which it is filled or emptied, charged or discharged; as, the mouth of a jar or pitcher; the mouth of the lacteal vessels, etc.
(n.) The opening or entrance of any cavity, as a cave, pit, well, or den.
(n.) The opening of a piece of ordnance, through which it is discharged.
(n.) The opening through which the waters of a river or any stream are discharged.
(n.) The entrance into a harbor.
(n.) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
(n.) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
(n.) Cry; voice.
(n.) Speech; language; testimony.
(n.) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
(v. t.) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
(v. t.) To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling; to speak in a strained or unnaturally sonorous manner.
(v. t.) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear her cub.
(v. t.) To make mouths at.
(v. i.) To speak with a full, round, or loud, affected voice; to vociferate; to rant.
(v. i.) To put mouth to mouth; to kiss.
(v. i.) To make grimaces, esp. in ridicule or contempt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cancer of the mouth, pharynx and esophagus has decreased in all Japanese migrants, but the decrease is much greater among Okinawan migrants, suggesting they have escaped exposure to risk factors peculiar to the Okinawan environment.
(2) Patients with cancer of floor of the mouth and oral tongue had higher odds ratios for alcohol drinking than subjects with cancers of other sites.
(3) In some ways, the Gandolfini performance that his fans may savour most is his voice work in Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are (2009), the cult screen version of Maurice Sendak 's picture book classic – he voiced Carol, one of the wild things, an untamed, foul-mouthed figure.
(4) Translation of foot-and-mouth disease virus RNA for extended periods in rabbit reticulocyte lysates results in the appearance of a previously undescribed protein.
(5) Measurements of mouth opening were made for up to 10 min after loss of the adductor pollicis twitch and cessation of muscle fasciculations.
(6) A philosophy student at Sussex University, he was part of an improvised comedy sketch group and one skit required him to beatbox (making complex drum noises with your mouth).
(7) Patients with complaints of dry eyes and dry mouth but with no objective abnormalities served as control group.
(8) Generated droplets were dried in line and led to an inhalation chamber from which the dry aerosol was inhaled using a nose or mouth inhalation unit.
(9) Three hundred sixteen female patients with cancer of the larynx, pharynx, and mouth were examined and the following cancer sites were compared with respect to alcohol and tobacco consumption: oropharynx, hypopharynx, larynx, epilarynx, lip, and mouth.
(10) Unexpected displacement of the endotracheal tube during anesthesia caused by postural change of the neck or passive compression by the mouth gag was investigated under transluminal fiberoptic observation.
(11) Mouth-to-cecum transit, however, does not play a major role in carbohydrate or fat malabsorption in these patients.
(12) Although 41% of the participants complained of dry mouth, neither serious adverse effects nor evidence of medication abuse appeared.
(13) I opened my eyes and my mouth wide, which made everyone in the audience think I was amazed at what I was seeing.
(14) The jaw deviated to the right when he opened his mouth fully.
(15) The study supports the view that even a moderate reduction of mouth opening capacity may indicate mandibular dysfunction and we recommend that this variable be routinely recorded.
(16) Greatly admired Murdoch is certainly putting his money where his mouth is.
(17) The raw air curve is determined by sequentially counting radionuclide activity in respiratory gases sampled at the mouth.
(18) The gradient of increasing copper and zinc concentrations with increasing distance upstream from the mouth of the estuary reported in 1975 could not be statistically validated.
(19) A certain number of parameters involved in the manufacture, control and use of an efficacious vaccine against foot-and-mouth disease have been studied.
(20) Histopathological examination alone could not be relied upon to differentiate between well-established skin lesions caused by swine vesicular disease and foot and mouth disease.
Taster
Definition:
(n.) One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food or drink to ascertain its quality.
(n.) That in which, or by which, anything is tasted, as, a dram cup, a cheese taster, or the like.
(n.) One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of mouths. See Siphonophora.
Example Sentences:
(1) For instance, it is hard to get colleagues to contribute to “survey courses” – taster programmes that briefly cover the main topics of a discipline.
(2) The harsh labour market experience of the young over recent years is a mere taster of what's in store.
(3) I decided to develop a 50-minute debut Fringe show and performed previews in London to test the show out and began promoting it.” By giving herself a taster of the Edinburgh experience before jumping in with both feet, Collins prepared herself for what was ahead.
(4) Among the tasters will be the Chicago-based author of Taste of Tomorrow, Josh Schonwald, and an Austrian food trends researcher, Hanni Rützler of the Future Food Studio.
(5) At one point, dissatisfied with their taste – she is an enthusiastic rather than a merely dutiful taster – she tipped seven plated servings of scallops back in a basin and began seasoning them all over again.
(6) Tasters selected milk earlier than did nontasters, suggesting that they like it more.
(7) Sensitive non-tasters demonstrated a distribution of reaction times that was similar to that observed with tasters.
(8) These results are regarded as a probable confirmation of the Indian origin of the Gipsies, as the percentage of non-tasters in the majority of the different Indian tribes is higher than that of the European populations.
(9) Now it provides a poignant taster of a major new British Museum touring exhibition that opens in Bristol on 21 September.
(10) The diminished intensity perception for sweet and bitter taste was much more prominent in non-tasters than tasters hypothyroids.
(11) Significantly more subjects who reported a mother debilitated by depression were PTC tasters (p less than .05).
(12) But they were tasters of what the no campaign thought the electorate deserved, ie not much.
(13) The impact of a rare “ice tsunami” in 2013 on the Canadian municipality of Ochre Beach was just a taster: a wall of melting iceberg on Dauphin Lake was blown by winds on to the shore, splintering every house in its path.
(14) In all the groups the frequency of 'tasters' exceeded that of 'nontasters.'
(15) Sixty percent of subjects of hyperthyroid and 40% of hypothyroid subjects were tasters.
(16) Between overall quality and the contents of total pigments, total anthocyanins, coloured anthocyanins and the tasters' mean colour scores; b. Flavour and the contents of total pigments and total anthocyanins.
(17) The present study examined differences in gustatory processing for tasters and non-tasters of phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) by assessing intensity judgment reaction times in these two groups.
(18) The SWR and CFW mice are both derived from Swiss mice, and the results were consistent with the possibility that the Taster animals share an allele which is identical by descent.
(19) We’ll give you some symbolic tasters – cutting winter fuel payments to wealthy pensioners, for example – but no hideous-sounding, cute-puppy-strangling, gruesome sacrifices that would really frighten people.
(20) Here's a taster: "Soccer" has weathered a long, dusty path for mainstream acceptance but the class of 2006 garnered idol status for Cahill, Kewell and co.