Gape vs Peek - What's the difference?
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To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise.
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To open wide; to display a gap.
* '', Act 1, Scene 1, 1807, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (editors),''The plays of William Shakspeare , Volume X,
* 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 74:
* , Cato Major, Of Old Age: A Poem , 1710,
(uncommon) An act of gaping; a yawn.
A large opening.
(uncountable) A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent gaping.
The width of an opening.
(zoology) The maximum opening of the mouth (of a bird, fish, etc.) when it is open.
To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place.
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(computing) To retrieve (a value) from a memory address.
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Gape is a related term of peek.
As a verb gape
is to open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise.As a noun gape
is (uncommon) an act of gaping; a yawn.As an acronym peek is
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Verb
(gap)page 467,
- She stretches, gapes , unglues her eyes, / And asks if it be time to rise;
citation, passage=Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all.}}
page 291,
- May that ground gape , and swallow me alive, / Where I shall kneel to him who slew my father!
- "Nor is he deterr'd from the belief of the perpetual flying of the Manucodiata, by the gaping of the feathers of her wings, (which seem thereby less fit to sustain her body) but further makes the narration probable by what he has observed in Kites hovering in the Aire, as he saith, for a whole hour together without any flapping of their wings or changing place."
page 25,
- The hungry grave for her due tribute gapes :
Noun
- (Addison)
Derived terms
*Anagrams
* ----peek
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Alternative forms
* (l), (l) (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) *, probably a fusion of peep and keek.Verb
(en verb)- A pale strip of white skin peeked out from under his waistband.
- Her brown skin peeked through the empty gap in her clothing.
- We are peeking the value from the first index's memory location.