Yawn vs Sigh - What's the difference?
yawn | sigh |
To open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation.
* Trumbull
To present a wide opening.
* Shakespeare
To open the mouth, or to gape, through surprise or bewilderment.
To be eager; to desire to swallow anything; to express desire by yawning.
* Landor
The action of ; opening the mouth widely and taking a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired.
A particularly boring event.
A deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing.
Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lament.
(Cockney rhyming slang) A person who is bored.
To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=5
‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’ […] ‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’}} To lament; to grieve.
* Bible, Mark viii. 12
To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
To experience an emotion associated with sighing.
To make a sound like sighing.
* Coleridge
* Tennyson
To exhale (the breath) in sighs.
* Shakespeare
To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.
* Shakespeare
* Hoole
(archaic) To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
* Prior
An expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like, often used in casual written contexts.
As verbs the difference between yawn and sigh
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 sigh is to inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like.As nouns the difference between yawn and sigh
is that yawn is the action of yawning; opening the mouth widely and taking a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired while sigh is a deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing.As an interjection sigh is
an expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like, often used in casual written contexts.yawn
English
(wikipedia yawn)Verb
(en verb)- I could see my students yawning , so I knew the lesson was boring them.
- And while above he spends his breath, / The yawning audience nod beneath.
- 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.
- 'Tis now the very witching time of night, / When churchyards yawn .
- (Shakespeare)
- to yawn for fat livings
- one long, yawning gaze
Noun
(en noun)- The slideshow we sat through was such a yawn . I was glad when it finished.
Derived terms
* multicolour yawn * Technicolor yawn * yawnfestAnagrams
*sigh
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)citation, passage=A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed .
‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’ […] ‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’}}
- He sighed deeply in his spirit.
- And the coming wind did roar more loud, / And the sails did sigh like sedge.
- The winter winds are wearily sighing .
- Never man sighed truer breath.
- They sighed forth proverbs.
- The gentle swain sighs back her grief.
- Ages to come, and men unborn, / Shall bless her name, and sigh her fate.
Interjection
(en interjection)- Sigh , I'm so bored at work today.