(uncountable) A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent gaping.
(zoology) The maximum opening of the mouth (of a bird, fish, etc.) when it is open.
A large opening.
The width of an opening.
verb
(intransitive) To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise.
(intransitive) To open wide; to display a gap.
(intransitive) To stare in wonder.
(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.
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page
noun
(Britain) A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
(Internet) A web page.
(US, Canada) A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
(computing) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
(computing) A screenful of text and possibly other content; especially, the digital simulation of one side of a paper leaf.
(figurative) Any record or writing; a collective memory.
(in libraries) The common name given to an employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.
(obsolete) A serving boy; a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, often as a position of honor and education.
(telecommunications, dated) A message sent to someone's pager.
(typography) The type set up for printing a page.
A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.
One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed.
verb
(intransitive, often with “through”) To turn several pages of a publication.
(transitive) To attend (someone) as a page.
(transitive) To call (somebody) using a public address system to find them.
(transitive) To furnish with folios.
(transitive) To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
(transitive, US, obsolete in UK) To call or summon (someone).
(transitive, telecommunications, dated) To contact (someone) by means of a pager or other mobile device.
