Yawn vs Gapes - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between yawn and gapes

is that yawn is to open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation while gapes is (gape).

As nouns the difference between yawn and gapes

is that yawn is the action of ; opening the mouth widely and taking a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired while gapes is .

yawn

English

(wikipedia yawn)

Verb

(en verb)

To open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation.

I could see my students yawning , so I knew the lesson was boring them.

* Trumbull

And while above he spends his breath, / The yawning audience nod beneath.

To present a wide opening.

The canyon yawns as it has done for millions of years, and we stand looking, dumbstruck.

Death yawned before us, and I hit the brakes.

* Shakespeare

'Tis now the very witching time of night, / When churchyards yawn .

To open the mouth, or to gape, through surprise or bewilderment.

(Shakespeare)

To be eager; to desire to swallow anything; to express desire by yawning.

to yawn for fat livings

* Landor

one long, yawning gaze

Noun

(en noun)

The action of ; opening the mouth widely and taking a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired.

A particularly boring event.

The slideshow we sat through was such a yawn . I was glad when it finished.

Derived terms

* multicolour yawn * Technicolor yawn * yawnfest

Anagrams

gapes

English

(wikipedia gapes)

Verb

(head)

(gape)

Noun

(head)

(plural only) A fit of yawning.

The gapes''' is contagious: when one person gets the '''gapes , pretty soon you've got a roomful of gapers.

(plural only) A disease of young poultry and other birds, caused by a parasitic nematode worm in the windpipe.

The gapes has gotten to many of the birds.