Ajar vs Gaping - What's the difference?
ajar | gaping | Synonyms |
Slightly turned or opened.
Slightly turned or opened.
To turn or open slightly; to become ajar or to cause to become ajar; to be or to hang ajar.
* 1970 , John H. Evans, Mercer County law journal , Volume 10,
* 1977 , Bill Reed, Dogod ,
* 2007 , Loki, Shard of the Ancient ,
(label) Out of harmony.
Being at variance or in contradiction to something.
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , II.14:
To show variance or contradiction with something; to be or cause to be askew.
* 1907 , The English Illustrated Magazine , Volume 36,
The act of one who gapes.
* 1820 , John Cooke, A Treatise on Nervous Diseases: Vol. I on Apoplexy
Something gaping; something .
Ajar is a synonym of gaping.
As nouns the difference between ajar and gaping
is that ajar is a member of an ethnographic group of georgians while gaping is the act of one who gapes.As a verb gaping is
.As an adjective gaping is
wide open.ajar
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ajar, . See char.Adverb
(-)- The door was standing ajar.
Adjective
(en adjective)- The door is ajar.
- When is a door not a door? When it is ajar .
- The pantry door was ajar , so I opened it and took out the jamb.
Verb
(ajarr)- A plainclothes detective knocked on a slightly ajarred door.
- Yes, and the door also lops off stairs leading to a landing on whose landing is another door on whose hinges much of this story ajars , if it hasn't jarred too much already.
- Just as the gates fully ajarred themselves, the Lamborghini soared through them, and out into the freedom of the poorly defined road.
Etymology 2
Adverb
(-)- There is a sort of unexpressed concern, / A kind of shock that sets one's heart ajar [...].
Verb
- It clean deafened the two of us, and set all the crockery ware ajarring ; and when the neighbours heard it they came running into the street to see who was getting hurt.
Anagrams
* ----gaping
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- M. Le Gallois considers these gapings , which continue for some time after decapitation, as the vain efforts of the head for respiration.