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gape
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)
- (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;
- 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,
- (intransitive) To stare in wonder.
- (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:
- 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,
- (intransitive, of a cat) To open the passage to the vomeronasal organ, analogous to the flehming in other animals.
- (pornography) To depict a dilated anal or vaginal cavity upon penetrative sexual activity.
Translations
Noun
gape (countable and uncountable, plural gapes)
- (uncommon) An act of gaping; a yawn.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Addison to this entry?)
- A large opening.
- (uncountable) A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent gaping.
- The width of an opening.
- (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
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of gapen
Anagrams
- page
Northern Sotho
Adverb
gape
- 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)
- 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)
- to gape (of a mouth, hole, wound etc., be wide open)
References
- “gape” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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gade
English
Etymology
Compare cod (“kind of fish”).
Noun
gade (plural gades)
- Any of various fish of the cod family found in British waters; especially those of the genera Gadus and Motella.
- (Britain, dialect, obsolete, Moray Firth) A pike.
Synonyms
- (pike): gead
Anagrams
- aged, agèd, egad
Danish
Etymology
From Old Danish gatæ, from Old Norse gata, whence English gate. Cognate with German Gasse (“lane”), Gothic ???????????????????? (gatw?).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [???æ?ð?]
- Rhymes: -a?d?
Noun
gade c (singular definite gaden, plural indefinite gader)
- street (a paved part of road, usually in a village or a town)
Inflection
Derived terms
Dutch
Alternative forms
- ga (mostly in compounds)
Etymology
From Middle Dutch gade, from gegade, from Old Dutch *gigado. Substantivised form of the past participle of gaden, which is now obsolete.
Related to eega, gading, gader, tegader, gaderen, vergaderen, gegadigde, allegaartje, weerga and possibly also goed. Cognate with German Gatte.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??a?d?/
Noun
gade m or f (plural gaden, diminutive gadetje n)
- spouse (husband or wife)
Related terms
- gading
French
Etymology
From Latin gadus (“fish, probably from among the Gadiformes”), from Ancient Greek ????? (gádos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ad/
Noun
gade m (plural gades)
- cod (any fish of the Gadidae)
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French regarder (“look, watch”)
Verb
gade
- (transitive) to look (at)
- (transitive) to watch
See also
- wè
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
gade (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- vocative singular of gad
Walloon
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *gaits (compare English goat).
Noun
gade f (r)
- goat (species)
- goat (female animal)
- female of roebuck
- rest for carpenters, etc.
Derived terms
- gadot
- gadlî
- gadler
- s' agadler
- ragadler
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