Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - yawn
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Yawn
yawn
(yawns, yawning, yawned) 1. If you yawn, you open your mouth very wide and breathe in more air than usual, often when you are tired or when you are not interested in something. She yawned, and stretched lazily... VERB: V • Yawn is also a noun. Rosanna stifled a huge yawn. N-COUNT 2. If you describe something such as a book or a film as a yawn, you think it is very boring. (INFORMAL) The debate was a mockery. A big yawn... The concert was a predictable yawn. = bore N-SING: a N 3. A gap or opening that yawns is large and wide, and often frightening. (LITERARY) The gulf between them yawned wider than ever... VERB: V
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I. verb Etymology: Middle English yenen, yanen, from Old English ginian; akin to Old High German ginen to ~, Latin hiare, Greek chainein Date: before 12th century intransitive verb 1. to open wide ; gape 2. to open the mouth wide and take a deep breath usually as an involuntary reaction to fatigue or boredom transitive verb 1. to utter with a ~ 2. to accomplish with or impel by ~s his grandchildren ~ed him to bed — L. L. King II. noun Date: 1602 1. gap, cavity 2. an opening of the mouth wide while taking a deep breath often as an involuntary reaction to fatigue or boredom; also a reaction resembling a ~ a…success at the box office but drew only ~s from critics — Current Biography 3. bore V this book is kind of a ~ — Ilene L. Cooper ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v. & n. --v. 1 intr. (as a reflex) open the mouth wide and inhale esp. when sleepy or bored. 2 intr. (of a chasm etc.) gape, be wide open. 3 tr. utter or say with a yawn. --n. 1 an act of yawning. 2 colloq. a boring or tedious idea, activity, etc. Derivatives yawner n. yawningly adv. Etymology: OE ginian, geonian ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. зевок to give a yawn —- зевнуть 2. зевота to stiffle a yawn —- подавить зевоту 3. зияющее отверстие 4. пропасть, бездна the yawn of hell —- пасть ада 5. тех. зазор, просвет, люфт 6. тех. неплотное соединение 7. разг. скучище, нечто нудное 8. разг. зануда, скучный человек he has become a yawn —- он всем надоел 9. зевать to make somebody yawn —- нагнать на кого-то зевоту(сон)скуку to yawn one's head off —- разг. иззеваться the audience yawned through the play —- в течение всего спектакля публика зевала 10. говорить (что-то) зевая he yawned good night —- он сказал "спокойной ночи" зевая 11. скучать to yawn one's life away —- изнывать (томиться) от скуки 12. уст. раскрывать рот от изумления 13. зиять 14. разверзать 15. разверзаться the graves yawned —- могилы разверзлись ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun 1) зевота 2) tech. зазор 2. v. 1) зевать; he yawned good night - зевая, он пожелал доброй ночи 2) зиять 3) разверзаться; a gulf yawned at our feet - бездна разверзлась у наших ног to make a person yawn - нагнать сон или скуку на кого-л. ...Англо-русский словарь
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~1 v 1 to open your mouth wide and breathe in deeply, usually because you are tired, or bored (The boy stretched and yawned.) 2 to be or become wide open (a yawning hole) + open (The pit yawned open in front of them. | yawning gap/gulf) (the yawning gap between training needs and training resources) ~2 n 1 an act of yawning (stifle a yawn (=try to stop yawning)) (Kay shook her head and stifled a yawn.) 2 informal someone or something that is boring (The party was a big yawn.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- M.E. yenen, yonen, from O.E. ginian, gionian "open the mouth wide, gape," from P.Gmc. *gin-, from PIE gh(e)i-. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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