different between gape vs explore

English

Etymology

Middle English gapen, from Old Norse gapa (“to gape”) (compare Swedish gapa, Danish gabe), from Proto-Germanic *gap?n? (descendants Middle English geapen, Dutch gapen, German gaffen), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *???h?b-. Cognates include Russian ???? (zjapa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?p/
• Rhymes: -e?p

Verb

gape (third-person singular simple present gapes, present participle gaping, simple past and past participle gaped)

1. (intransitive) 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. (intransitive) To stare in wonder.
3. (intransitive) To open wide; to display a gap.
   • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Third Part of King Henry VI, Act 1, Scene 1, 1807, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (editors),The plays of William Shakspeare, Volume X, page 291,

     May that ground gape, and swallow me alive, / Where I shall kneel to him who slew my father!

   • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 74:

     "Nor is he deterr'd from the belief of the perpetual flying of the Manucodiata, by the gaping of the feathers of her wings, (which seem thereby less fit to sustain her body) but further makes the narration probable by what he has observed in Kites hovering in the Aire, as he saith, for a whole hour together without any flapping of their wings or changing place."

   • a. 1699, John Denham, Cato Major, Of Old Age: A Poem, 1710, page 25,

     The hungry grave for her due tribute gapes:

4. (intransitive, of a cat) To open the passage to the vomeronasal organ, analogous to the flehming in other animals.
5. (pornography) To depict a dilated anal or vaginal cavity upon penetrative sexual activity.

Translations

Noun

gape (countable and uncountable, plural gapes)

1. (uncommon) An act of gaping; a yawn.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Addison to this entry?)

2. A large opening.
3. (uncountable) A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent gaping.
4. The width of an opening.
5. (zoology) The maximum opening of the mouth (of a bird, fish, etc.) when it is open.

Derived terms

• agape

Translations

Anagrams

• PAGE, Page, page, peag

Dutch

Verb

gape

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of gapen

Anagrams

• page

Northern Sotho

Adverb

gape

1. again

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse gapa

Verb

gape (imperative gap, present tense gaper, passive gapes, simple past gapa or gapte, past participle gapa or gapt, present participle gapende)

1. to gape (of a mouth, hole, wound etc., be wide open)

   gap opp! - open wide! (e.g. at the dentist)

References

• “gape” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• gapa

Etymology

From Old Norse gapa

Verb

gape (present tense gapar or gaper, past tense gapa or gapte, past participle gapa or gapt, passive infinitive gapast, present participle gapande, imperative gap)

1. to gape (of a mouth, hole, wound etc., be wide open)

References

• “gape” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Etymology

From Middle French explorer, from Latin expl?r?re (“to investigate, search out”), itself said to be originally a hunters' term meaning "to set up a loud cry", from ex- (“out”) + pl?r?re (“to cry”), but the second element is also explained as "to make to flow" (from pluere (“to flow”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?ksplô?, IPA^(key): /?k?spl??/
• (General American) enPR: ?ksplôr?, IPA^(key): /?k?spl??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ?kspl?r?, IPA^(key): /?k?splo(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?k?splo?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Hyphenation: ex?plore

Verb

explore (third-person singular simple present explores, present participle exploring, simple past and past participle explored)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To seek for something or after someone.
2. (transitive) To examine or investigate something systematically.
3. (transitive) To travel somewhere in search of discovery.

4. (intransitive, medicine) To examine diagnostically.
5. (transitive) To (seek) experience first hand.

6. (intransitive) To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.

7. (intransitive) To wander without any particular aim or purpose.
8. (transitive) To seek sexual variety, to sow one's wild oats.

Synonyms

• (examine or investigate systematically): delve into, research

Derived terms

• explorer

Related terms

• exploration
• explorative
• exploratory

Translations

Noun

explore (plural explores)

1. (colloquial) An exploration; a tour of a place to see what it is like.
   • 2008, John Watters, Bonza Voyage

     Daylight was fading quickly, but I was still keen to have a little explore of the town and beach.

French

Verb

explore

1. first-person singular present indicative of explorer
2. third-person singular present indicative of explorer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of explorer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of explorer
5. second-person singular imperative of explorer

Portuguese

Verb

explore

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of explorar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of explorar
3. first-person singular imperative of explorar
4. third-person singular imperative of explorar

Spanish

Verb

explore

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of explorar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of explorar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of explorar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of explorar.