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Definition: Gaping |
GapingAdjective1. With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe; "the gaping audience"; "we stood there agape with wonder"; "with mouth agape". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gaping" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonym: GapingSynonym: agape(p) (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Expectation | Adjective: expectant; expecting; Verb: in expectation; Noun: on the watch; (vigilant); open-eyed, open-mouthed, in wide-eyed anticipation; agape, gaping, all agog; on tenterhooks, on tiptoe, on the tiptoe of expectation; aux aguets; ready; curious; looking forward to. |
Opening | Adjective: open; perforated; Verb: perforate; wide open, ajar, unclosed, unstopped; oscitant, gaping, yawning; patent. |
Wonder | With wonder; Noun: with gaping mouth; with open eyes, with upturned eyes. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Gaping |
| English words defined with "gaping": agape ♦ Chappy, Chinky ♦ dumdum, dumdum bullet ♦ Fatiscence, Fissure needle ♦ Hiation ♦ Inhiation ♦ Monkey flower ♦ Open-mouthed, Oscitancy, Oscitation ♦ Ricture, rictus, Ringent ♦ The gapes ♦ yawning. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "gaping": Beer aux Mouches. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "gaping": Chemosis. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Gaping" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (breach, crack, crevice, gap). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Zip that gaping hole of a mouth up, Peggy, before I plug it up with my fist (Desperate Living; writing credit: John Waters) | |
Lyrics | , A mystery gaping inside (A View to a Kill; performing artist: Duran Duran) His soul's escaping, through this hole that is gaping (Lose Yourself; performing artist: EMINEM) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Tarzan. With a mighty heave, Tarzan hurled the shrieking Marlow into the gaping jaws of death. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Her head struck the head of the bed and fell forward on her breast, the mouth gaping, the eyes open and glazed |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Gaping" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 42.94% of the time. "Gaping" is used about 163 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 42.94% | 70 | 39,981 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 36.81% | 60 | 43,597 |
| Noun (proper) | 15.95% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.68% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (common) | 0.61% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 163 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "gaping". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Beth-peor | N/A | Biblical | House of gaping |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "gaping": agapepredicate gaping yawning ♦ don't stand gaping ♦ gaping fault. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "gaping"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | محدق. (various references) | |
Chinese | 口"舌 (Gaped). (various references) | |
Danish | gabende sko (gaping shoe), sammen med kaolinit finder man illitiske lermineraler og blandingslaggittermineraler som udviser et nettounderskud paa K+ioner mellem de adskitte strukturelle lag (the gaping leaves of which indicate a marked shortage of K+ ions, the kaolinite is associated with illitic and interstratified clay minerals), forkastningsspalte (gap fault, gaping fault, open fault, stratigraphic heave), belastningsdeformitet (deformity due to gaping occlusion, deformity due to stress, stress deformity). (various references) | |
Dutch | gapende schoen (gaping shoe), samen met kaolien komen kleiige illietische insluitsels voor, waarvan de structuur van de gapende bladen duidelijk wijst op een tekort aan K+ ionen (the gaping leaves of which indicate a marked shortage of K+ ions, the kaolinite is associated with illitic and interstratified clay minerals), open breuk (gap fault, gaping fault, open fault, stratigraphic heave), belastingsdeformiteit (deformity due to gaping occlusion, deformity due to stress, stress deformity). (various references) | |
Finnish | suu ammollaan (agape). (various references) | |
French | qui bâille (gaper), béant, bâillement. (various references) | |
German | gaffend (agape), gähnend (yawning), angaffend (gaping at). (various references) | |
Greek | παραμόρφωσις οφειλόμενη σε χαίνουσα σύγκλειση (deformity due to gaping occlusion), υπόδημα με χαλαρό καρέ (gaping shoe), χαίνον ρήγμα (gap fault, gaping fault, open fault, stratigraphic heave), ανοικτό ρήγμα (gap fault, gaping fault, open fault, stratigraphic heave), ο καολινίτης συνδέεται με ιλιτικά και ενδιαστρωμένα ορυκτά,τα χασματικά φυλίδια των οποίων παρουσιάζουν ενα αξιοσημείωτο έλλειμμα ιόντων (the gaping leaves of which indicate a marked shortage of K+ ions, the kaolinite is associated with illitic and interstratified clay minerals). (various references) | |
Hebrew | פעיר" (opening wide, yawning), פ"קת (yawning). (various references) | |
Indonesian | babang. (various references) | |
Italian | spalancato (wide). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ぼろ布 (absent-minded, absentmindedly, block-head, dim, dripping water, faint, flabbergasted, old rag, penis, slowly and lazily, the sound of beating someone, vague, warmth throughout your body, with a whack), ばら荷 (a person who is made to do things or go get things for someone else, actively, alertly, blinking with surprise, bulk goods, crispy, crunching, first-class, flapping open and closed, in a flash, nimbly, rapidly, skips-most-stations Toukai-line shinkansen, slap, snapping or biting into, snappingsound, suddenly, tearing, to be exposed, to leak out, twitching, work hard). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぽか"と (absentmindedly, flabbergasted, slowly and lazily, with a whack), ぱくり (snapping or biting into), ぱっくり (snapping or biting into). (various references) | |
Manx | thoaganey (gape, stare, staring), thoaganagh (gaper, starer, staring), lhean-foslit, feayn-foshlit (wide awake, wide open). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | apinggay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | escancarado, boquiaberto (agape), aberto (frank, ingenuous, inlet, naked, open-hearted, outspread, outstretched, pervious, plainspoken, staring, unclosed, unobstructed). (various references) | |
Romanian | cãscat (absent minded, Agape, ajar, open mouthed, stupid, yawn, yawning), boldit, bleojdit. (various references) | |
Russian | глазеть зияющий. (various references) | |
Scottish | craos (a wide, gaping mouth, maw). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | dubok i otvoren. (various references) | |
Spanish | La caolinita se encuentra asociada a minerales arcillosos interestratificados en los que las hojas vacantes muestran un gran déficit en ion potasio. (the gaping leaves of which indicate a marked shortage of K+ ions, the kaolinite is associated with illitic and interstratified clay minerals), falla abierta (gap fault, gaping fault, open fault, stratigraphic heave), desbocado (gaping shoe). (various references) | |
Swedish | gapande (gape, open mouthed, wide-opened, yawning). (various references) | |
Turkish | şaşkın (addle-brained, addled, addle-headed, addle-pated, all abroad, at an end, bemused, bepuzzle, bewildered, confused, consternated, dizzy, dumbfounded, happy, open-eyed, pixilated, puzzled, puzzle-headed, sheepish, slaphappy, taken aback, thunderstruck, twisted, wide-eyed, wondering), ağzı açık, açık (aboveground, apparent, articulate, avowed, bare, blank, broad, candid, categorical, clean-cut, clear, clear-cut, cloudless, confessed, decided, declared, decollete, deficiency, deficient, deficient amount, deficit, definite, definitive, direct, distinct, downright, evident, expansive, explicit, exposed, express, expressly, fair, forthright, free, hospitable, in blank, light, loose, lucent, lucid, luminous, obvious, open, open air, open ended, outdoor, outright, overt, pale, patent, perspicuous, plain, point blank, precise, raw, revealing, round, serene, shadowless, shirt-sleeve, shortage, shortfall, spread, Square, straightforward, swinging, translucent, unambiguous, unashamed, unclouded, uncomplicated, unconcealed, uncovered, uncrossed, undisguised, unequivocal, unlocked, unmistakable, unobstructed, unprotected, unsealed, upfront, vacant, visible, well-marked, wide open, wishywashy), çok aralık. (various references) | |
Welsh | safnrhwth (open-mouthed), rhwth (distended), cegrwth. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gaping": gapingly. (additional references) | |
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"Gaping" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gabing, gaiiing, gapen, gapi, gapin, gasing, goping, gopping, Goppingen, Gyapong, gyping. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gaping" (pronounced gā"ping) |
| 4 | -ā" p i ng | aping, draping, escaping, raping, reshaping, scraping, shaping, taping. |
| 3 | -p i ng | antidumping, backslapping, beeping, bleeping, bookkeeping, bumping, burping, camping, capping, carping, Chipping, chirping, chomping, chopping, clamping, clapping, clipping, clumping, coping, copping, cramping, creeping, crimping, cropping, damping, developing, dipping, dripping, drooping, dropping, dumping, eavesdropping, enveloping, equipping, flapping, flipping, flopping, galloping, gasping, gossiping, grasping, griping, gripping, groping, grouping, gulping, handicapping, harping, heaping, helping, hoping, hopping, housekeeping, hyping, jumping, keeping, kidnaping, kidnapping, lamping, landscaping, lapping, leaping, limping, lopping, lumping, mapping, moping, mopping, napping, nipping, outstripping, overlapping, overstepping, peacekeeping, peeping, pimping, piping, popping, prepping, propping, pulping, pumping, ramping, rapping, reaping, recapping, recouping, regrouping, revamping, ripping, romping, roping, safekeeping, sapping, scalping, scooping, scoping, scrapping, scrimping, seeping, shipping, shopping, sidestepping, sipping, skimping, skipping, slapping, sleeping, slipping, sloping, slumping, snapping, sniping, snooping, sopping, stamping, stepping, stereotyping, stomping, stooping, stopping, strapping, stripping, stumping, swamping, swapping, sweeping, swiping, swooping, tamping, tapping, thumping, tipping, topping, tramping, trapping, tripping, trooping, typing, unwrapping, upping, usurping, videotaping, walloping, Wapping, warping, weeping, whipping, whooping, whopping, wiping, Wiretapping, worshipping, wrapping, zapping, zipping. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: paging. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-g-i-n-p" | |
-1 letter: aging, aping. | |
-2 letters: agin, gain, gang, giga, nipa, pain, pang, pian, pina, ping. | |
-3 letters: ain, ani, gag, gan, gap, gig, gin, gip, nag, nap, nip, pan, pia, pig, pin. | |
-4 letters: ag, ai, an, in, na, pa, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-g-i-n-p" | |
+1 letter: gapping, gasping, gawping, pagings, panging, parging. | |
+2 letters: galoping, gapingly, graphing, grasping, pargings, plaguing, pranging, sparging, upgazing. | |
+3 letters: dognaping, galloping, gazumping, grappling, mispaging, packaging, pargeting, passaging, pillaging, portaging, presaging, rampaging, spangling, upgrading, upstaging. | |
+4 letters: dognapping, galumphing, gingersnap, grapplings, graspingly, hypnagogic, operagoing, paganising, paganizing, paginating, paragoning, pargetting, programing. | |
+5 letters: angiography, apologising, apologizing, campaigning, decoupaging, disparaging, expurgating, gatekeeping, gingersnaps, megaphoning, operagoings, programings, programming, propagating, prorogating, repackaging, spurgalling, upgathering. | |
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