yawning
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔːnɪŋ
Verb
yawning
Noun
yawning (countable and uncountable, plural yawnings)
- The action of the verb yawn.
Adjective
yawning (comparative more yawning, superlative most yawning)
- That yawns or yawn.
- yawning commuters
- (figuratively) Wide open.
- 2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
- The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what.
- a yawning chasm; the shark's yawning jaws
Translations
that yawns or yawn
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wide open
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