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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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observe
English
Etymology
From Middle French observer, from Old French [Term?], from Latin observare (“to watch, note, mark, heed, guard, keep, pay attention to, regard, comply with, etc.”), from ob (“before”) + servare (“to keep”), from Proto-Indo-European *serw- (“to guard”). Cognate with Gothic ???????????????????? (sarwa, “weapons, armour”), Old English searu (“device, design, contrivance, art, cunning, craft, artifice, wile, deceit, stratagem, ambush, treachery, plot, trick, snare, ambuscade, cleverness, machine, engine, fabric, armor, equipment, arms”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b?z??v/, (rare) /?b?z??v/
- (General American, Canada) enPR: ?b-zûrv?, IPA(key): /?b?z?v/
- Rhymes: -??(?)v
- Hyphenation: ob?serve
Verb
observe (third-person singular simple present observes, present participle observing, simple past and past participle observed)
- (transitive) To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
- 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb
- “One horse?” interjected Holmes. ¶ “Yes, only one.” ¶ “Did you observe the colour?”
- 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb
- (transitive) To follow or obey the custom, practice, or rules (especially of a religion).
- (transitive) To take note of and celebrate (a holiday or similar occurrence); to follow (a type of time or calendar reckoning).
- Ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread.
- 2020 (March 7), Jackie Dunham, "Daylight time: How to get enough sleep when the clocks spring forward, CTV News:
- On Sunday, most of Canada will observe daylight time and spring forward an hour in order to reflect the increasing sunlight.
- (intransitive) To comment on something; to make an observation.
- Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
Synonyms
- (follow a custom): celebrate
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- observe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- observe in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- obverse, verbose
French
Verb
observe
- first-person singular present indicative of observer
- third-person singular present indicative of observer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of observer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of observer
- second-person singular imperative of observer
Portuguese
Verb
observe
- first-person singular present subjunctive of observar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of observar
- first-person singular imperative of observar
- third-person singular imperative of observar
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ob?serve]
Verb
observe
- third-person singular present subjunctive of observa
- third-person plural present subjunctive of observa
Spanish
Verb
observe
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of observar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of observar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of observar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of observar.
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