Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - mouth
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Mouth
mouth
(mouthing, mouthed) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. Your mouth is the area of your face where your lips are or the space behind your lips where your teeth and tongue are. She clamped her hand against her mouth... His mouth was full of peas. N-COUNT: oft poss N • -mouthed He straightened up and looked at me, open-mouthed. COMB in ADJ 2. You can say that someone has a particular kind of mouth to indicate that they speak in a particular kind of way or that they say particular kinds of things. You’ve got such a crude mouth! N-COUNT: with supp, oft adj N • -mouthed ...Simon, their smart-mouthed teenage son. COMB in ADJ 3. The mouth of a cave, hole, or bottle is its entrance or opening. By the mouth of the tunnel he bent to retie his lace. = entrance N-COUNT: usu with supp, oft N of n • -mouthed He put the flowers in a wide-mouthed blue vase. COMB in ADJ 4. The mouth of a river is the place where it flows into the sea. ...the town at the mouth of the River Dart. N-COUNT: usu with supp 5. If you mouth something, you form words with your lips without making any sound. I mouthed a goodbye and hurried in behind Momma... ‘It’s for you,’ he mouthed. VERB: V n, V with quote 6. If you mouth something, you say it, especially without believing it or without understanding it. I mouthed some sympathetic platitudes... VERB: V n 7. If you have a number of mouths to feed, you have the responsibility of earning enough money to feed and look after that number of people. He had to feed his family on the equivalent of four hundred pounds a month and, with five mouths to feed, he found this very hard. PHRASE: N inflects 8. If you say that someone does not open their mouth, you are emphasizing that they never say anything at all. Sometimes I hardly dare open my mouth... PHRASE: V and N inflect, with brd-neg c darkgreen]emphasis 9. If you keep your mouth shut about something, you do not talk about it, especially because it is a secret. You wouldn’t be here now if she’d kept her mouth shut. PHRASE: V and N inflect 10. to live hand to mouth: see hand heart in your mouth: see heart from the horse’s mouth: see horse to put your money where your mouth is: see money shut your mouth: see shut to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth: see spoon word of mouth: see word
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I. noun (plural ~s) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Old English muth; akin to Old High German mund ~ and perhaps to Latin mentum chin Date: before 12th century 1. a. the natural opening through which food passes into the body of an animal and which in vertebrates is typically bounded externally by the lips and internally by the pharynx and encloses the tongue, gums, and teeth b. grimace made a ~ c. an individual requiring food had too many ~s to feed 2. a. voice, speech finally gave ~ to her feelings b. ~piece 3a c. (1) a tendency to excessive talk (2) saucy or disrespectful language ; impudence 3. something that resembles a ~ especially in affording entrance or exit: as a. the place where a stream enters a larger body of water b. the surface opening of an underground cavity c. the opening of a container d. an opening in the side of an organ flue pipe • ~like adjective II. Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. a. speak, pronounce b. to utter bombastically ; declaim c. to repeat without comprehension or sincerity always ~ing platitudes d. to form soundlessly with the lips the librarian ~ed the word “quiet” e. to utter indistinctly ; mumble ~ed his words 2. to take into the ~; especially eat intransitive verb 1. a. to talk pompously ; rant — often used with off b. to talk insolently or impudently — usually used with off 2. to move the ~ especially so as to make faces • ~er noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. (pl. mouths) 1 a an external opening in the head, through which most animals admit food and emit communicative sounds. b (in humans and some animals) the cavity behind it containing the means of biting and chewing and the vocal organs. 2 a the opening of a container such as a bag or sack. b the opening of a cave, volcano, etc. c the open end of a woodwind or brass instrument. d the muzzle of a gun. 3 the place where a river enters the sea. 4 colloq. a talkativeness. b impudent talk; cheek. 5 an individual regarded as needing sustenance (an extra mouth to feed). 6 a horse's readiness to feel and obey the pressure of the bit. --v. 1 tr. & intr. utter or speak solemnly or with affectations; rant, declaim (mouthing platitudes). 2 tr. utter very distinctly. 3 intr. a move the lips silently. b grimace. 4 tr. take (food) in the mouth. 5 tr. touch with the mouth. 6 tr. train the mouth of (a horse). Phrases and idioms give mouth (of a dog) bark, bay. keep one's mouth shut colloq. not reveal a secret. mouth-organ = HARMONICA. mouth-to-mouth (of resuscitation) in which a person breathes into a subject's lungs through the mouth. mouth-watering 1 (of food etc.) having a delicious smell or appearance. 2 tempting, alluring. put words into a person's mouth represent a person as having said something in a particular way. take the words out of a person's mouth say what another was about to say. Derivatives mouthed adj. (also in comb.). mouther n. mouthless adj. Etymology: OE muth f. Gmc ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
устье; горловина входное отверстие; входное сооружение (устройство) bell mouth bird's mouth canal mouth drain mouth fish mouth intake mouth pit mouth tunnel mouth ...Англо-русский строительный словарь
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1) вход 2) дульце 3) колошник 4) раструбный 5) ротовой 6) топогр. устье 7) устьевый mouth diameter of parachute — диаметр раскрытия купола парашюта mouth of a pipe — входной конец трубы mouth of sectoral horn — раскрыв секторального рупора - concentric mouth - eccentric mouth - mouth of crack - mouth of horn - shaft mouth - vessel mouth ...Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
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рот, ротовое отверстие – mouth of womb – cell mouth – crushing mouth – grasping mouth – imbibing mouth – inferior mouth – protractile mouth – shell mouth – subterminal mouth – superior mouth – terminal mouth – upward-pointing mouth ...Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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1. рот; уста in the mouth —- во рту it sounds strange in his mouth —- в его устах это звучит странно by mouth, by word of mouth —- устно from mouth to mouth —- из уст в уста to open one's mouth —- открыть рот; начать говорить, заговорить I shouldn't have opened my mouth —- мне надо было молчать to close (to shut) one's mouth —- закрыть рот; замолчать keep your mouth shut! —- молчи!, помалкивай!; держи язык за зубами! he kept his mouth shut about it —- он об этом помалкивал to stop smb.'s mouth (with a gag) —- заткнуть кому-л. рот (кляпом) I have a foul mouth —- у меня во рту неприятный привкус 2. рот, едок to feed five mouths —- кормить (содержать, иметь на иждивении) пятерых useless mouth —- дармоед 3. гримаса to make a mouth (mouths) (at smb.) —- строить рожи (кому-л.), гримасничать to make a wry mouth —- скорчить кислую мину to make a pretty mouth —- сложить губы сердечком 4. отверстие, выход 5. горн. устье выработки 6. вход (в гавань, пещеру) 7. устье (реки) 8. горлышко (бутылки) 9. воен. дуло; дульце (гильзы); окно (магазина) 10. тех. зев, устье; выходной патрубок; раструб 11. тех. приемное отверстие (дробилки) 12. тех. вход, входное отверстие 13. сл. наглость, нахальство Id: to put words into smb.'s mouth —- вложить слова в чьи-л. уста, подсказывать кому-л., что надо говорить; приписывать кому-л. какие-л. слова (речи) Id: to take the words out of smb.'s mouth —-...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun; pl. -s 1) рот, уста; - by mouth - by word of mouth 2) рот, едок 3) устье (реки, шахты) 4) вход (в гавань, пещеру) 5) горлышко (бутылки); дуло, жерло 6) гримаса; to make mouths - строить рожи, гримасничать 7) sl. нахальство 8) tech. устье, зев, отверстие; выходной патрубок; раструб; рупор from mouth to mouth - из уст в уста to open ones mouth too wide - а) ожидать слишком многого; б) запрашивать (слишком высокую цену) to take the words out of smb. s mouth - предвосхитить чьи-л. слова to put words into smb. s mouth - а) подсказать кому-л., что надо говорить; б) приписывать кому-л. какие-л. слова to have a good (bad) mouth - хорошо (плохо) слушаться узды (о лошади) 2. v. 1) говорить торжественно; изрекать 2) жевать; чавкать 3) приучать лошадь к узде 4) гримасничать 5) впадать (о реке) ...Англо-русский словарь
8.
See: BORN WITH A SILVER SPOON IN ONE'S MOUTH, BUTTER WOULDN'T MELT IN ONE'S MOUTH, BY WORD OF MOUTH, DOWN IN THE DUMPS or DOWN IN THE MOUTH, FOAM AT THE MOUTH, HEART IN ONE'S MOUTH, KEEP ONE'S MOUTH SHUT, LAUGH ON THE WRONG SIDE OF ONE'S MOUTH, LEAVE A BAD TASTE IN ONE'S MOUTH, LIVE FROM HAND TO MOUTH, LOOK A GIFT HORSE IN THE MOUTH, MAKE ONE'S MOUTH WATER, MELT IN ONE'S MOUTH, PUT ONE'S FOOT IN IT or PUT ONE'S FOOT IN ONE'S MOUTH, PUT WORDS INTO ONE'S MOUTH, SHOOT OFF ONE'S MOUTH, STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH, TAKE THE BIT IN ONE'S MOUTH, TAKE THE BREAD OUT OF ONE'S MOUTH. ...Английский словарь американских идиом
9.
- O.E. muр, from P.Gmc. *munthaz, with characteristic loss of nasal consonant in O.E. (cf. tooth, goose, etc.). The verb is 14c. from the noun. Mouthpiece "one who speaks on behalf of others" is from 1805, in the specific sense of "lawyer" it is first found 1857. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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