gape

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise.

   “1723, Jonathan Swift, The Journal of a Modern Lady, 1810, Samuel Johnson, The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 11, page 467, She stretches, gapes, unglues her eyes, / And asks if it be time to rise;”

2. fiil To stare in wonder.

   “Home I vvould go, / But that my Dores are hatefull to my eyes. / Fill'd and damm'd up vvith gaping Creditors, / VVatchfull as Fovvlers vvhen their Game vvill ſpring; […]”

3. fiil To open wide; to display a gap.

   “The wound was gaping open and losing too much blood.”

4. fiil To open the passage to the vomeronasal organ, analogous to the flehming in other animals.
5. fiil To depict a dilated anal or vaginal cavity upon penetrative sexual activity.
6. isim An act of gaping; a yawn.

   “Now a gen'ral gape goes round, And vapours cloud each sleepy head.”

7. isim A large opening.
8. isim A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent gaping.
9. isim The width of an opening.
10. isim The maximum opening of the mouth (of a bird, fish, etc.) when it is open.