Jaws

Definition: Jaws

Jaws

Noun

1. Holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "jaws" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Computing

Dream Interpretation

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JAWS

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: Jaws

Death

Dying. Verb: moribund, morient; hippocratic; in articulo, in extremis; in the jaws of death, in the agony of death; going off; aux abois; one one's last legs, on one's death bed; at the point of death, at death's door, at the last gasp; near one's end, given over, booked; with one foot in the grave, tottering on the brink of the grave.

Death warrant, death watch, death rattle, death bed; stroke of death, agonies of death, shades of death, valley of death, jaws of death, hand of death; last breath, last gasp, last agonies; dying day, dying breath, dying agonies; chant du cygne; rigor mortis; Stygian shore.

Deliverance

Verb: deliver, extricate, rescue, save, emancipate, redeem, ransom; bring off,bring through; tirer d'affaire, get the wheel out of the rut, snatch from the jaws of death, come to the rescue; rid; retrieve; (restore); be rid of, get rid of.

Edge

Noun: edge, verge, brink, brow, brim, margin, border, confine, skirt, rim, flange, side, mouth; jaws, chops, chaps, fauces; lip, muzzle.

Food

Mouth, jaws, mandible, mazard, chops.

Narrowness Thinness

Having, slip; (filament); thread paper, skeleton, shadow, anatomy, spindleshanks, lantern jaws, mere skin and bone.

Crosswords: Jaws

His name's Jaws, he kills people (Moonraker; writing credit: Christopher Wood)

In fact, I hear the bite reflex is so strong they have to pry the victims jaws open with a crow bar. (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

Lanky brunettes with wicked jaws. (The Thin Man; writing credit: Dashiell Hammett; Albert Hackett)

Mr. Jaws died (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear)

When Jaws popped out of the water (Mallrats; writing credit: Kevin Smith)

Long john jaws long john stalls (Southern Hospitality; performing artist: Ludacris)

It sucks you into the jaws of anger (I DON'T WANT TO WAIT; performing artist: Paula Cole)

She's got the jaws now locked down in smile but nothing is all right, (Semi-Charmed Life; performing artist: Third Eye Blind)

Jaws of the Jungle (1936)

Lion's Jaws and Kitten's Paws (1920)

From the Lion's Jaws (1915)

Jaws 2: A Portrait by Keith Gordon (2001)

Mako: The Jaws of Death (1976)

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Books

• Jenny and the Jaws of Life (reference)

• Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: 20th Century Military Blunders (reference)

• The Jaws Log: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition (Newmarket Insider Filmbooks) (reference)

• The Jaws of Death: Sharks As Predator, Man As Prey (reference)

• From the jaws of victory (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Jaws (25th Anniversary Full-Screen Collector's Edition) (reference)

• Jaws / Jaws 2 (Value Pack) (reference)

• Jaws - 25th Anniversary Collector's Edition (reference)

• Jaws 2 (reference)

• Jaws 3 (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Royal Jaws 7 Sheet Stripcut Shredder and Basket (reference)

• Jaws PDF Creator 2.0 [DOWNLOAD] (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Swim call! Undaunted by Jaws movies, ALBATROSS IV crewman dives into waters off Menempsha Bight. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Deformed jaws of salmon caused by the spawning process altering their bodies. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Hooded Nudibranch, Melibe leonina, is also called the Lion Nudibranch. This mollusk is almost transparent with a slight yellowish-green cast. Unlike other nudibranchs, Melibe have no radula and M. Leonina has no jaws. It uses its oral hood, lined with 2 rows of tentacles to capture prey. Found in offshore kelpbeds and eelgrass meadows. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Wolf-eels, Anarrhichthys ocellatus, have powerful jaws for crushing bivalves. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Figure 26. The Leger dredge sounder in the descending position. This sampling device was designed to retain a portion of the captured sample even if a rock held the jaws open after being activated to snap shut. This sounder was tested twenty-two times in 1903 on the PRINCESS ALICE II between depths of 18 and 4560 meters. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Part of the talking head made by Alexander Graham Bell, showing teeth and jaws. Credit: Library of Congress.

Jaws of the Wisconsin Dells. Credit: Library of Congress.

Tarzan. With a mighty heave, Tarzan hurled the shrieking Marlow into the gaping jaws of death. Credit: Library of Congress.

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With the umbrella in its mouth, its jaws were so far apart that it could get no firm grip on the parasol

Scrooge knew this, by the smart sound its teeth made, when the jaws were brought together by the bandage

Thenardier felt what the wolf feels the moment when he finds himself seized and crushed by the steel jaws of the trap

Cranly, who was still chewing the fig, answered with loud movements of his jaws.

The truck driver gnawed down the stick of gum slowly, opening his jaws and lips wide with each bite

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Health

Allergies, tumors, and problems in the heart and blood vessels, jaws, and neck can cause tinnitus. (references)

Angina feels like a pressing or squeezing pain, usually in the chest under the breast bone, but sometimes in the shoulders, arms, neck, jaws, or back. Angina is usually precipitated by exertion. (references)

Manifestations include severe contractures, scoliosis (curvature of the spine), chest deformity, respiratory problems, micrognathia (unusually small jaws), and ptosis (drooping of upper eyelids). (references)

Business

Oral health is concerned with the well-being of the mouth and its structures, including the teeth, tongue, jaws, supporting tissues and salivary glands. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "jaws": escape from the jaws of death ♦ jaws of death ♦ jaws of Life ♦ Lantern jaws. Additional references.

Ending with "jaws": droopy-jaws, lock-jaws, saw-jaws.

Albanian

nofulla të morës, grykë (defile, gap, gizzard, gob, inlet, jaw, lip, maw, mouth, muzzle, neck, neckband, nose, nozzle, orifice, outfall, ravine, spout, throat, vent). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فك (break up, chap, detach, disassemble, disconnect, disengage, disentangle, disjoint, dismantle, dissociate, disunite, free, jaw, jowl, loose, loosening, mandible, release, separate, set free, take apart, take to pieces, undo, unfasten, unfix, untangle, untie, untying, unwind), ‏حنك (jaw, palate). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ждрело (throat), приказки (prattle, talk). (various references)

Chinese 

下颌 (jaw). (various references)

Czech

èelisti. (various references)

Danish

kæber (claws), grab (clamshell, grab, lifting grab). (various references)

Dutch

muil (maw, mouth, mule, muzzle), bek (beak, bill, maw, mouth, muzzle). (various references)

Esperanto

faŭko (maw), buŝego (mouth, muzzle). (various references)

Finnish

tarraimen sormet (claws), sormet (claws), kita. (various references)

French

mâchoires, gueule. (various references)

German

Rachen (abyss, maw, mouth, pharyngeal, pharynx, throat, throats), Maul (gob, maw, mouth, muzzle, yap). (various references)

Greek 

σιαγόνα (jowl). (various references)

Hungarian

völgytorkolat, torkolat (chop, debouchment, embouchure, estuary, Firth, issue, jaw, Lough, mouth, outfall), tátongó nyílás (crack), állkapocs (chap, chop, jaw, jawbone, jowl, mandible). (various references)

Italian

ganascia (jaw), ganasce (claws), fauci (fauces, gullet). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ジュラ紀 (George, georgette, Georgia, going by quickly, jawboning, jog, jogger, jogging, joint, joint concert, joint venture, joke, joker, Josephson, joy, joy stick, joyful, Julia, Junlon, Jurassic, Jurassic Period, jury, JV, whizzing). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ジョーズ . (various references)

Korean 

턱 (Chin, jaw, mandible, mandibular). (various references)

Pig Latin

awsjay.(various references)

Portuguese

maxilas, boca (aperture, beginning, gob, jaw, kisser, lips, maw, mouth, mouthpiece, orifice, outfall, socket, stoma). (various references)

Romany

chamàhoolya. (various references)

Russian 

тиски (clamp, grip, gripe, jaw vice, nip, scavenger's daughter, stranglehold, vice, vice-grip, vise), пасть (jaw, rat-trap). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

čeljust (jaw, jowl, maw). (various references)

Spanish

mandibula, mandíbulas (claws), garras (claws, grasp, handgrip), fauces (fauces, maw), de boca, boca (bit, chop, chops, drain, mouth, peen, pit, trap). (various references)

Swedish

käft (chops, gob, jaw, jawbone, mouth, muzzle, yap), gap (abyss, chasm, gap, gape, gulf, maw, mouth, muzzle, opening, precipice, yawn). (various references)

Turkish

ağız (accent, beak, beestings, brim, brink, chop, cutting edge, debouchment, dialect, edge, embouchure, gob, jaw, keen edge, kisser, lip, mouth, muzzle, opening, oral, orifice, outlet, potato trap, stoma, trap, vent, ventage). (various references)

Ukrainian

паща. (various references)

Welsh

safn (mouth). (various references)

mala, malae, malam, malas, malis, maxilla, maxillae, maxillam, maxillas, maxillis, morsu, morsus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words ending with "jaws": lockjaws, underjaws. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Jaws" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ajaw, ajs, Ajw, aws, jaas, jaez, jah, jak, jans, japs, jas, jass, jats, Jaus, jauz, Jawa, jawd, jawe, jawi, jawk, jawl, jawls, jawp, jawst, jawsy, jawz, jazs, jewes, jewn, jews, jewt, jias, jiwn, jows, juw, zaws. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: jaw, saw, was.

-2 letters: as, aw.

+2 letters: jawans, jigsaw, jowars, swaraj.

+3 letters: ajowans, jigsawn, jigsaws.

+4 letters: jackdaws, jawbones, jawlines, jaywalks, jigsawed, lockjaws, swarajes.

+5 letters: jackscrew, jackstraw, jawboners, jigsawing, swarajist, underjaws.