gape

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n. 裂口, 张嘴, 打哈欠 vi. 裂开, 张嘴, 打哈欠

发音

其它 /ˈɡeɪp/

词形变化

gapes 复数 gapes gaped gapes 三单 gapest gapeth gaping gaping 现在分词 gaped 过去式 gaped 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

裂口，张嘴；呵欠

动词

裂开，张开；打呵欠

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An act of gaping; a yawn.

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    A large opening.

    可数 不可数
  3. 3.

    A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent gaping.

    不可数 可数
  4. 4.

    The width of an opening.

    可数 不可数
  5. 5.

    The maximum opening of the mouth (of a bird, fish, etc.) when it is open.

    可数 不可数 生物 动物学
v. C1
  1. 1.

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

    张嘴

    不及物

    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. 2.

    To stare in wonder.

    不及物
  3. 3.

    To open wide; to display a gap.

    不及物

    The wound was gaping open and losing too much blood.

  4. 4.

    To open the passage to the vomeronasal organ, analogous to the flehming in other animals.

    不及物
  5. 5.

    To depict a dilated anal or vaginal cavity upon penetrative sexual activity.

    媒体

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

stare facial expression

下位词 1

rictus
动词

同义词 5

yawn gawk yaw goggle gawp

上位词 2

look open

相关短语

gape seed gape seeds gape for

词源

From Middle English gapen, from Old Norse gapa (“to gape”) (compare Swedish gapa, Danish gabe), from Proto-Germanic *gapōną (descendants Middle English geapen, Dutch gapen, German gaffen), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰеh₂b-. Cognates include Russian зяпа (zjapa). Doublet of gap.

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