Definition of jaw in English:

jaw

noun dʒɔːdʒɔ

1Each of the upper and lower bony structures in vertebrates forming the framework of the mouth and containing the teeth.
Example sentencesExamples
- Six of these measurements capture cranial shape, and eight capture dental adaptations of both the upper and the lower jaw.
- Capybaras are classified with the hystricognaths, but their jaws appear to have secondarily become almost sciurognathous.
- The dental arch of the lower jaw is in a state of mesial occlusion with that of the upper jaw.
- The crocodile had mounted an offense and taken the body of a native, crushing him in its jaws.
- Full dentures are needed when there are no teeth left in the upper or lower jaw.
- The lower jaw is the primary site of force transmission from the body and jaw muscles to the jaws, in mouth opening and, to a lesser extent, jaw closing.
- The primary skeletal difference between reptiles and mammals is found in the structure of their jaws.
- Thomas cites the experience of a nineteenth-century explorer saved by a companion just as a lion's jaws had begun to crush his chest.
- Humans may have learned about what a high fat, high protein meal the marrow was from the hyenas, who could crush bones with their jaws.
- The lower jaw of the haddock is slightly shorter than the upper jaw and the fish has a small single barbel.
- Fish with jaws usually have five functional pairs of gill arches.
- The fossil skull's upper and lower jaws reveal deep channels and grooves that once held nerves and blood vessels.
- The jaw is undershot, which means the lower jaw is longer than the upper jaw.
- Named after their spotted coats and fearsome jaws, leopard seals have large, reptilian heads and streamlined bodies.
- Most diprotodonts have three pairs of incisors in their upper jaws, but this number is reduced to one pair in one family, the wombats.
- Ruminants also lack incisors in the upper jaw, and most lack canines in the upper jaw as well.
- In others, the way the upper and lower jaws meet can cause teeth to look unsightly and lead to an incorrect bite. Orthodontic treatment may be able to correct this.
- I clench my jaws and remember my determination.
- See how a mother alligator protects her newborn hatchlings in her otherwise deadly jaws, and learn what dangers the babies face in the wild.
- Massive carnivorous dinosaurs known as spinosaurs had snouts and jaws similar to modern fish-eating crocodiles.
Synonyms
jawbone, lower jaw, mandible
1. 1.1 The lower movable bone of the jaw, or the part of the face containing it.
  she suffered a broken jaw
  Example sentencesExamples
  Not only was Ali beaten by Norton in their first fight, but he also suffered a broken jaw in the fight.
  Steve Davey returns to the bench after making a remarkable recovery from a broken jaw suffered just three weeks ago.
  But the world featherweight champion knows how to control that anger, how to focus the energy of his rage on the point of an opponent's jaw.
  It was feared that he may have brain damage and his injuries included broken ribs, a broken jaw, a punctured lung and shattered nerves in his right arm and right leg.
  The implant material, made of highly biocompatible titanium, is inserted into the bone of the jaw.
  Mr Napier said the man suffered a broken nose, a broken jaw and a suspected fractured skull.
  The 28-year-old victim suffered a broken jaw and black eyes, among other injuries.
  She suffered a broken jaw, cheekbone, forearm and pelvis.
  The sergeant's jaw dropped and it looked as if he was trying to strike Manny dead with a lightning bolt from his gaping mouth.
  He received crush injuries, a fractured skull and a broken jaw and spent 11 days in hospital.
  He suffered burns to his hands and a broken jaw, and lost ‘a considerable amount of blood’.
  On 18 February 1992 a demonstration was violently attacked by the police and the Applicant suffered a broken jaw.
  Perret claimed to have found that his beautiful faces did have something in common: higher cheek bones, a thinner jaw, and larger eyes relative to the size of the face.
  She looked at me straight in the eye, before clutching my jaw and opening my mouth with her index-finger.
  She had to have reconstructive surgery at the weekend to repair a broken jaw and damage to her eye sockets.
  He suffered a broken femur, broken jaw and broken cheekbone.
  My cousin's jaw dropped and he said ‘how does a bin man know Bill Wyman?’
  In 1992 Gareth was offered the chance to have his jaw reconstructed, using bone from his leg, at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford.
  The muscles joining the hyoid bone to the jaw should be relaxed so that the larynx is pulled forward and upwards.
  The lorry driver escaped unhurt but Butcher suffered serious head injuries and a broken jaw.
  He almost died, and had to crawl his way to help despite broken bones and a shattered jaw.
  Synonyms
  jawbone, lower jaw, mandible
2. 1.2jaws The mouth with its bones and teeth.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Joshua removed his staff to begin his assault on the beast; the creatures jaws snapped like a vice grip before him.
  The thick skin, massive strength in the shoulders and neck, and vice grip jaws are there for a reason.
  For one thing, the average WAFR is around the same size as a Labrador, with front teeth some four inches long, and jaws capable of crushing human bone.
  It was not until the autofocus hit the mark that I noted the jaws of the scorpionfish trapping the poor butterfish.
  The dragon caught up with and snapped his jaws shut, trapping Xio inside.
  Synonyms
  mouth, maw, muzzle, lips
3. 1.3jaws The grasping, biting, or crushing mouthparts of an invertebrate.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Whereas arms and legs have more muscles than segments, the jaws and tongues of anurans are composed of relatively few muscles.
  For an infected ant, when the declining air temperature hits a certain threshold, its jaws become locked in a closed position.
  Others, such as the clam worm, are active, mobile predators that capture prey in jaws attached to their pharynges.
  Scolecodonts are the isolated jaws of polychaete annelid worms.
  The anapsids start out with elongate jaws and rostra, but the entire muzzle becomes progressively shorter across their phylospace.
  Termites rush to a breach in their nest and clamp their jaws onto the snout of a marauding anteater, almost guaranteeing their own death.
  The termites use their jaws to turn the woody plant material and soil they bore through into tiny particles that the microbes can process.
  The buccal mass of cephalopods includes a pair of jaws termed beaks that are used to masticate prey.
  Synonyms
  mouth, maw, muzzle, lips
4. 1.4usually jaws The gripping parts of a tool or machine, such as a wrench or vice.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Finally, the bucking pipe is gripped by the mechanical jaws of a massive clamp.
  Make sure the jaws of the wrench or pliers are snug in position before you manipulate the handle, to avoid slippage or scraped knuckles.
  Cover the jaws of wrenches or vices with electrician's tape.
  The device subject of the patent in issue in that case was a ‘workbench’ which combined a workbench, a saw horse and a vice with elongated jaws.
  We got the guys from the motor pool to weld a gun mount on the outside of the cupola - the brace on my mount was a huge wrench with thee-inch jaws.
5. 1.5jaws The grasping or destructive power of something.
  victory was snatched from the jaws of defeat
  Example sentencesExamples
  As many as 750 children have been rescued by Vathsalya from the jaws of despair, and perhaps death, some of them only a few months old.
  This adds up to more than 500 million people, who have been saved from the jaws of oppression and dominance.
  To our great relief, due to the joint efforts of six doctors who stayed with them in the intensive care unit for a couple of hours, they were ultimately snatched from the jaws of death.
  Keighley Town grasped victory from the jaws of defeat thanks to a brilliant last minute individual try from Man of the Match Neil Kennedy.
  Indeed, sometimes even a layoff can carry within it the seeds of future success, and you can wrest something positive from the jaws of rejection.
6. 1.6jaws An opening likened to a mouth.
  a passenger stepping from the jaws of a car ferry
  Example sentencesExamples
  She pried the trap open with her own arms, slowly the gaping jaws of the trap stood wide open, but she couldn't hold it like that anymore.
  From the jaws of the ferry in Tårs you are quickly led away from the cars and out through Sandby.
  Then we continued on our way, going deeper and deeper into the open jaws of the cave.
  The steel jaws of the traps, which will catch any animal or person walking in the bush, are ostensibly for use against jackals but are often used by poachers to trap game.
2informal mass noun Talk or gossip, especially when lengthy or tedious.
committee work is just endless jaw
Synonyms
chat, talk, conversation, gossip, chatter, chitter-chatter, heart-to-heart, tête-à-tête, powwow, blether, blather

verb dʒɔːdʒɔ

[no object]informal

Talk at length; chatter.
I was too busy to spend time jawing with the rest of the crew
Example sentencesExamples
- I sit here jawing while Pavel enriches the world through his generous work.
- By the end, they're just something to jaw about by the campfire.
- Doesn't it strike anyone as odd that we keep jawing away on ‘innocent until proven guilty’ but mainly about the high-flyers?
- Chesterton once observed that it was always perilous to talk politics with women because of the imminent danger that they would want to do something about it and not just go on jawing as men do.
- Most evenings as I'm coming home from work, Steve is out in front of the store, jawing with anyone who'll give him a minute of his or her time, cussing up a storm, flirting with all the women, and exhorting everyone to go in and buy stuff.
Synonyms
chat, talk idly, chatter, prattle, prate, go on, run on, rattle away, rattle on, gossip, tittle-tattle, tattle, ramble, gabble, jabber, babble, blather, blether, blither, twitter, maunder, drivel, patter, yap, jibber-jabber, cackle

Phrases

one's jaw drops

One feels or appears amazed or shocked.
Laurel's jaw dropped despite her attempts to hide her surprise
Example sentencesExamples
- My jaw drops to wide open, and I just stare at her.
- While feisty Hawn takes the hacienda-style home in her stride, her jaw drops at the magnificence of the garden.
- Her eyes burst open and her jaw drops, she backs up and away from the circle, breaking her hands free.
- my jaw drops, cycling over recent conversations I've had with this lady on the phone.
- When you look at them, your jaw drops like a rock.
- Rachmaninov composed his first concerto when he was 18 but, before your jaw drops in amazement, he revised it substantially at 44.
- Some moments, my jaw drops, I don't believe what just happened.
- I don't normally experience moments where my jaw drops at something online.
- We head up a rickety flight of stairs, pass through a wooden door, and suddenly my jaw drops open.
- His eyebrows rise in surprise as his jaw drops.

Derivatives

jawed

adjective

in combination square-jawed young men

jawless

adjective

Some 450 million years ago, both jawed and jawless vertebrates began relying on cells called lymphocytes to support the burgeoning adaptive immune system.
Example sentencesExamples
- At a quick glance, jawless fish such as the lamprey above don't appear to have much in common with jawed fish or any other back-boned creature.
- In traditional classifications, the hagfish, lampreys, and extinct armored jawless fish are grouped together in the paraphyletic Class Agnatha.
- Most jawless species went extinct long ago and are known only from the fossil record.
- The hagfish, together with lampreys, are living representatives of the jawless vertebrates (class Agnatha) and are considered to be the most evolutionarily ancient vertebrates.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French joe 'cheek, jaw', of unknown origin.

Rhymes

abhor, adore, afore, anymore, ashore, awe, bandore, Bangalore, before, boar, Boer, bore, caw, chore, claw, cocksure, comprador, cor, core, corps, craw, Delors, deplore, door, draw, drawer, evermore, explore, flaw, floor, for, forbore, fore, foresaw, forevermore, forswore, four, fourscore, furthermore, Gábor, galore, gnaw, gore, grantor, guarantor, guffaw, hard-core, Haugh, haw, hoar, ignore, implore, Indore, interwar, Johor, Lahore, law, lessor, lor, lore, macaw, man-o'-war, maw, mirador, mor, more, mortgagor, Mysore, nevermore, nor, oar, obligor, offshore, onshore, open-jaw, or, ore, outdoor, outwore, paw, poor, pore, pour, rapport, raw, roar, saw, scaur, score, senhor, señor, shaw, ship-to-shore, shop-floor, shore, signor, Singapore, snore, soar, softcore, sore, spore, store, straw, swore, Tagore, tau, taw, thaw, Thor, threescore, tor, tore, torr, trapdoor, tug-of-war, two-by-four, underfloor, underscore, war, warrantor, Waugh, whore, withdraw, wore, yaw, yore, your

Definition of jaw in US English:

jaw

nounjôdʒɔ

1Each of the upper and lower bony structures in vertebrates forming the framework of the mouth and containing the teeth.
Example sentencesExamples
- The lower jaw is the primary site of force transmission from the body and jaw muscles to the jaws, in mouth opening and, to a lesser extent, jaw closing.
- Humans may have learned about what a high fat, high protein meal the marrow was from the hyenas, who could crush bones with their jaws.
- Most diprotodonts have three pairs of incisors in their upper jaws, but this number is reduced to one pair in one family, the wombats.
- The jaw is undershot, which means the lower jaw is longer than the upper jaw.
- The crocodile had mounted an offense and taken the body of a native, crushing him in its jaws.
- Six of these measurements capture cranial shape, and eight capture dental adaptations of both the upper and the lower jaw.
- Fish with jaws usually have five functional pairs of gill arches.
- In others, the way the upper and lower jaws meet can cause teeth to look unsightly and lead to an incorrect bite. Orthodontic treatment may be able to correct this.
- I clench my jaws and remember my determination.
- See how a mother alligator protects her newborn hatchlings in her otherwise deadly jaws, and learn what dangers the babies face in the wild.
- Thomas cites the experience of a nineteenth-century explorer saved by a companion just as a lion's jaws had begun to crush his chest.
- Capybaras are classified with the hystricognaths, but their jaws appear to have secondarily become almost sciurognathous.
- Full dentures are needed when there are no teeth left in the upper or lower jaw.
- Massive carnivorous dinosaurs known as spinosaurs had snouts and jaws similar to modern fish-eating crocodiles.
- Ruminants also lack incisors in the upper jaw, and most lack canines in the upper jaw as well.
- The lower jaw of the haddock is slightly shorter than the upper jaw and the fish has a small single barbel.
- The primary skeletal difference between reptiles and mammals is found in the structure of their jaws.
- Named after their spotted coats and fearsome jaws, leopard seals have large, reptilian heads and streamlined bodies.
- The fossil skull's upper and lower jaws reveal deep channels and grooves that once held nerves and blood vessels.
- The dental arch of the lower jaw is in a state of mesial occlusion with that of the upper jaw.
Synonyms
jawbone, lower jaw, mandible
1. 1.1 The lower movable bone of the jaw, or the part of the face containing it.
  she suffered a broken jaw
  Example sentencesExamples
  Perret claimed to have found that his beautiful faces did have something in common: higher cheek bones, a thinner jaw, and larger eyes relative to the size of the face.
  The lorry driver escaped unhurt but Butcher suffered serious head injuries and a broken jaw.
  She suffered a broken jaw, cheekbone, forearm and pelvis.
  She had to have reconstructive surgery at the weekend to repair a broken jaw and damage to her eye sockets.
  He almost died, and had to crawl his way to help despite broken bones and a shattered jaw.
  The 28-year-old victim suffered a broken jaw and black eyes, among other injuries.
  My cousin's jaw dropped and he said ‘how does a bin man know Bill Wyman?’
  He suffered a broken femur, broken jaw and broken cheekbone.
  He received crush injuries, a fractured skull and a broken jaw and spent 11 days in hospital.
  It was feared that he may have brain damage and his injuries included broken ribs, a broken jaw, a punctured lung and shattered nerves in his right arm and right leg.
  In 1992 Gareth was offered the chance to have his jaw reconstructed, using bone from his leg, at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford.
  Steve Davey returns to the bench after making a remarkable recovery from a broken jaw suffered just three weeks ago.
  Mr Napier said the man suffered a broken nose, a broken jaw and a suspected fractured skull.
  He suffered burns to his hands and a broken jaw, and lost ‘a considerable amount of blood’.
  The implant material, made of highly biocompatible titanium, is inserted into the bone of the jaw.
  On 18 February 1992 a demonstration was violently attacked by the police and the Applicant suffered a broken jaw.
  But the world featherweight champion knows how to control that anger, how to focus the energy of his rage on the point of an opponent's jaw.
  The muscles joining the hyoid bone to the jaw should be relaxed so that the larynx is pulled forward and upwards.
  The sergeant's jaw dropped and it looked as if he was trying to strike Manny dead with a lightning bolt from his gaping mouth.
  Not only was Ali beaten by Norton in their first fight, but he also suffered a broken jaw in the fight.
  She looked at me straight in the eye, before clutching my jaw and opening my mouth with her index-finger.
  Synonyms
  jawbone, lower jaw, mandible
2. 1.2jaws The mouth with its bones and teeth.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The thick skin, massive strength in the shoulders and neck, and vice grip jaws are there for a reason.
  For one thing, the average WAFR is around the same size as a Labrador, with front teeth some four inches long, and jaws capable of crushing human bone.
  It was not until the autofocus hit the mark that I noted the jaws of the scorpionfish trapping the poor butterfish.
  The dragon caught up with and snapped his jaws shut, trapping Xio inside.
  Joshua removed his staff to begin his assault on the beast; the creatures jaws snapped like a vice grip before him.
  Synonyms
  mouth, maw, muzzle, lips
3. 1.3jaws The grasping, biting, or crushing mouthparts of an invertebrate.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Termites rush to a breach in their nest and clamp their jaws onto the snout of a marauding anteater, almost guaranteeing their own death.
  Scolecodonts are the isolated jaws of polychaete annelid worms.
  The termites use their jaws to turn the woody plant material and soil they bore through into tiny particles that the microbes can process.
  The buccal mass of cephalopods includes a pair of jaws termed beaks that are used to masticate prey.
  Others, such as the clam worm, are active, mobile predators that capture prey in jaws attached to their pharynges.
  Whereas arms and legs have more muscles than segments, the jaws and tongues of anurans are composed of relatively few muscles.
  The anapsids start out with elongate jaws and rostra, but the entire muzzle becomes progressively shorter across their phylospace.
  For an infected ant, when the declining air temperature hits a certain threshold, its jaws become locked in a closed position.
  Synonyms
  mouth, maw, muzzle, lips
4. 1.4jaws Used to suggest the notion of being in danger from something such as death or defeat.
  victory was snatched from the jaws of defeat
  Example sentencesExamples
  Keighley Town grasped victory from the jaws of defeat thanks to a brilliant last minute individual try from Man of the Match Neil Kennedy.
  Indeed, sometimes even a layoff can carry within it the seeds of future success, and you can wrest something positive from the jaws of rejection.
  As many as 750 children have been rescued by Vathsalya from the jaws of despair, and perhaps death, some of them only a few months old.
  To our great relief, due to the joint efforts of six doctors who stayed with them in the intensive care unit for a couple of hours, they were ultimately snatched from the jaws of death.
  This adds up to more than 500 million people, who have been saved from the jaws of oppression and dominance.
5. 1.5usually jaws The gripping parts of a tool or machine, such as a wrench or vise.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Make sure the jaws of the wrench or pliers are snug in position before you manipulate the handle, to avoid slippage or scraped knuckles.
  We got the guys from the motor pool to weld a gun mount on the outside of the cupola - the brace on my mount was a huge wrench with thee-inch jaws.
  Finally, the bucking pipe is gripped by the mechanical jaws of a massive clamp.
  The device subject of the patent in issue in that case was a ‘workbench’ which combined a workbench, a saw horse and a vice with elongated jaws.
  Cover the jaws of wrenches or vices with electrician's tape.
6. 1.6jaws An opening likened to a mouth.
  a passenger stepping from the jaws of a ferry
  Example sentencesExamples
  She pried the trap open with her own arms, slowly the gaping jaws of the trap stood wide open, but she couldn't hold it like that anymore.
  From the jaws of the ferry in Tårs you are quickly led away from the cars and out through Sandby.
  Then we continued on our way, going deeper and deeper into the open jaws of the cave.
  The steel jaws of the traps, which will catch any animal or person walking in the bush, are ostensibly for use against jackals but are often used by poachers to trap game.
7. 1.7informal Talk or gossip, especially when lengthy or tedious.
  committee work is just endless jaw
  we ought to have a jaw
  Synonyms
  chat, talk, conversation, gossip, chatter, chitter-chatter, heart-to-heart, tête-à-tête, powwow, blether, blather

verbjôdʒɔ

[no object]informal

Talk at length; chatter.
he could still hear men jawing away about the vacuum cleaners
Example sentencesExamples
- I sit here jawing while Pavel enriches the world through his generous work.
- Most evenings as I'm coming home from work, Steve is out in front of the store, jawing with anyone who'll give him a minute of his or her time, cussing up a storm, flirting with all the women, and exhorting everyone to go in and buy stuff.
- By the end, they're just something to jaw about by the campfire.
- Doesn't it strike anyone as odd that we keep jawing away on ‘innocent until proven guilty’ but mainly about the high-flyers?
- Chesterton once observed that it was always perilous to talk politics with women because of the imminent danger that they would want to do something about it and not just go on jawing as men do.
Synonyms
chat, talk idly, chatter, prattle, prate, go on, run on, rattle away, rattle on, gossip, tittle-tattle, tattle, ramble, gabble, jabber, babble, blather, blether, blither, twitter, maunder, drivel, patter, yap, jibber-jabber, cackle

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French joe ‘cheek, jaw’, of unknown origin.

单词	jaw
释义	Definition of jaw in English: jaw noun dʒɔːdʒɔ 1Each of the upper and lower bony structures in vertebrates forming the framework of the mouth and containing the teeth. Example sentencesExamples Six of these measurements capture cranial shape, and eight capture dental adaptations of both the upper and the lower jaw. Capybaras are classified with the hystricognaths, but their jaws appear to have secondarily become almost sciurognathous. The dental arch of the lower jaw is in a state of mesial occlusion with that of the upper jaw. The crocodile had mounted an offense and taken the body of a native, crushing him in its jaws. Full dentures are needed when there are no teeth left in the upper or lower jaw. The lower jaw is the primary site of force transmission from the body and jaw muscles to the jaws, in mouth opening and, to a lesser extent, jaw closing. The primary skeletal difference between reptiles and mammals is found in the structure of their jaws. Thomas cites the experience of a nineteenth-century explorer saved by a companion just as a lion's jaws had begun to crush his chest. Humans may have learned about what a high fat, high protein meal the marrow was from the hyenas, who could crush bones with their jaws. The lower jaw of the haddock is slightly shorter than the upper jaw and the fish has a small single barbel. Fish with jaws usually have five functional pairs of gill arches. The fossil skull's upper and lower jaws reveal deep channels and grooves that once held nerves and blood vessels. The jaw is undershot, which means the lower jaw is longer than the upper jaw. Named after their spotted coats and fearsome jaws, leopard seals have large, reptilian heads and streamlined bodies. Most diprotodonts have three pairs of incisors in their upper jaws, but this number is reduced to one pair in one family, the wombats. Ruminants also lack incisors in the upper jaw, and most lack canines in the upper jaw as well. In others, the way the upper and lower jaws meet can cause teeth to look unsightly and lead to an incorrect bite. Orthodontic treatment may be able to correct this. I clench my jaws and remember my determination. See how a mother alligator protects her newborn hatchlings in her otherwise deadly jaws, and learn what dangers the babies face in the wild. Massive carnivorous dinosaurs known as spinosaurs had snouts and jaws similar to modern fish-eating crocodiles. Synonyms jawbone, lower jaw, mandible 1.1 The lower movable bone of the jaw, or the part of the face containing it. she suffered a broken jaw Example sentencesExamples Not only was Ali beaten by Norton in their first fight, but he also suffered a broken jaw in the fight. Steve Davey returns to the bench after making a remarkable recovery from a broken jaw suffered just three weeks ago. But the world featherweight champion knows how to control that anger, how to focus the energy of his rage on the point of an opponent's jaw. It was feared that he may have brain damage and his injuries included broken ribs, a broken jaw, a punctured lung and shattered nerves in his right arm and right leg. The implant material, made of highly biocompatible titanium, is inserted into the bone of the jaw. Mr Napier said the man suffered a broken nose, a broken jaw and a suspected fractured skull. The 28-year-old victim suffered a broken jaw and black eyes, among other injuries. She suffered a broken jaw, cheekbone, forearm and pelvis. The sergeant's jaw dropped and it looked as if he was trying to strike Manny dead with a lightning bolt from his gaping mouth. He received crush injuries, a fractured skull and a broken jaw and spent 11 days in hospital. He suffered burns to his hands and a broken jaw, and lost ‘a considerable amount of blood’. On 18 February 1992 a demonstration was violently attacked by the police and the Applicant suffered a broken jaw. Perret claimed to have found that his beautiful faces did have something in common: higher cheek bones, a thinner jaw, and larger eyes relative to the size of the face. She looked at me straight in the eye, before clutching my jaw and opening my mouth with her index-finger. She had to have reconstructive surgery at the weekend to repair a broken jaw and damage to her eye sockets. He suffered a broken femur, broken jaw and broken cheekbone. My cousin's jaw dropped and he said ‘how does a bin man know Bill Wyman?’ In 1992 Gareth was offered the chance to have his jaw reconstructed, using bone from his leg, at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford. The muscles joining the hyoid bone to the jaw should be relaxed so that the larynx is pulled forward and upwards. The lorry driver escaped unhurt but Butcher suffered serious head injuries and a broken jaw. He almost died, and had to crawl his way to help despite broken bones and a shattered jaw. Synonyms jawbone, lower jaw, mandible 1.2jaws The mouth with its bones and teeth. Example sentencesExamples Joshua removed his staff to begin his assault on the beast; the creatures jaws snapped like a vice grip before him. The thick skin, massive strength in the shoulders and neck, and vice grip jaws are there for a reason. For one thing, the average WAFR is around the same size as a Labrador, with front teeth some four inches long, and jaws capable of crushing human bone. It was not until the autofocus hit the mark that I noted the jaws of the scorpionfish trapping the poor butterfish. The dragon caught up with and snapped his jaws shut, trapping Xio inside. Synonyms mouth, maw, muzzle, lips 1.3jaws The grasping, biting, or crushing mouthparts of an invertebrate. Example sentencesExamples Whereas arms and legs have more muscles than segments, the jaws and tongues of anurans are composed of relatively few muscles. For an infected ant, when the declining air temperature hits a certain threshold, its jaws become locked in a closed position. Others, such as the clam worm, are active, mobile predators that capture prey in jaws attached to their pharynges. Scolecodonts are the isolated jaws of polychaete annelid worms. The anapsids start out with elongate jaws and rostra, but the entire muzzle becomes progressively shorter across their phylospace. Termites rush to a breach in their nest and clamp their jaws onto the snout of a marauding anteater, almost guaranteeing their own death. The termites use their jaws to turn the woody plant material and soil they bore through into tiny particles that the microbes can process. The buccal mass of cephalopods includes a pair of jaws termed beaks that are used to masticate prey. Synonyms mouth, maw, muzzle, lips 1.4usually jaws The gripping parts of a tool or machine, such as a wrench or vice. Example sentencesExamples Finally, the bucking pipe is gripped by the mechanical jaws of a massive clamp. Make sure the jaws of the wrench or pliers are snug in position before you manipulate the handle, to avoid slippage or scraped knuckles. Cover the jaws of wrenches or vices with electrician's tape. The device subject of the patent in issue in that case was a ‘workbench’ which combined a workbench, a saw horse and a vice with elongated jaws. We got the guys from the motor pool to weld a gun mount on the outside of the cupola - the brace on my mount was a huge wrench with thee-inch jaws. 1.5jaws The grasping or destructive power of something. victory was snatched from the jaws of defeat Example sentencesExamples As many as 750 children have been rescued by Vathsalya from the jaws of despair, and perhaps death, some of them only a few months old. This adds up to more than 500 million people, who have been saved from the jaws of oppression and dominance. To our great relief, due to the joint efforts of six doctors who stayed with them in the intensive care unit for a couple of hours, they were ultimately snatched from the jaws of death. Keighley Town grasped victory from the jaws of defeat thanks to a brilliant last minute individual try from Man of the Match Neil Kennedy. Indeed, sometimes even a layoff can carry within it the seeds of future success, and you can wrest something positive from the jaws of rejection. 1.6jaws An opening likened to a mouth. a passenger stepping from the jaws of a car ferry Example sentencesExamples She pried the trap open with her own arms, slowly the gaping jaws of the trap stood wide open, but she couldn't hold it like that anymore. From the jaws of the ferry in Tårs you are quickly led away from the cars and out through Sandby. Then we continued on our way, going deeper and deeper into the open jaws of the cave. The steel jaws of the traps, which will catch any animal or person walking in the bush, are ostensibly for use against jackals but are often used by poachers to trap game. 2informal mass noun Talk or gossip, especially when lengthy or tedious. committee work is just endless jaw Synonyms chat, talk, conversation, gossip, chatter, chitter-chatter, heart-to-heart, tête-à-tête, powwow, blether, blather verb dʒɔːdʒɔ [no object]informal Talk at length; chatter. I was too busy to spend time jawing with the rest of the crew Example sentencesExamples I sit here jawing while Pavel enriches the world through his generous work. By the end, they're just something to jaw about by the campfire. Doesn't it strike anyone as odd that we keep jawing away on ‘innocent until proven guilty’ but mainly about the high-flyers? Chesterton once observed that it was always perilous to talk politics with women because of the imminent danger that they would want to do something about it and not just go on jawing as men do. Most evenings as I'm coming home from work, Steve is out in front of the store, jawing with anyone who'll give him a minute of his or her time, cussing up a storm, flirting with all the women, and exhorting everyone to go in and buy stuff. Synonyms chat, talk idly, chatter, prattle, prate, go on, run on, rattle away, rattle on, gossip, tittle-tattle, tattle, ramble, gabble, jabber, babble, blather, blether, blither, twitter, maunder, drivel, patter, yap, jibber-jabber, cackle Phrases one's jaw drops One feels or appears amazed or shocked. Laurel's jaw dropped despite her attempts to hide her surprise Example sentencesExamples My jaw drops to wide open, and I just stare at her. While feisty Hawn takes the hacienda-style home in her stride, her jaw drops at the magnificence of the garden. Her eyes burst open and her jaw drops, she backs up and away from the circle, breaking her hands free. my jaw drops, cycling over recent conversations I've had with this lady on the phone. When you look at them, your jaw drops like a rock. Rachmaninov composed his first concerto when he was 18 but, before your jaw drops in amazement, he revised it substantially at 44. Some moments, my jaw drops, I don't believe what just happened. I don't normally experience moments where my jaw drops at something online. We head up a rickety flight of stairs, pass through a wooden door, and suddenly my jaw drops open. His eyebrows rise in surprise as his jaw drops. Derivatives jawed adjective in combination square-jawed young men jawless adjective Some 450 million years ago, both jawed and jawless vertebrates began relying on cells called lymphocytes to support the burgeoning adaptive immune system. Example sentencesExamples At a quick glance, jawless fish such as the lamprey above don't appear to have much in common with jawed fish or any other back-boned creature. In traditional classifications, the hagfish, lampreys, and extinct armored jawless fish are grouped together in the paraphyletic Class Agnatha. Most jawless species went extinct long ago and are known only from the fossil record. The hagfish, together with lampreys, are living representatives of the jawless vertebrates (class Agnatha) and are considered to be the most evolutionarily ancient vertebrates. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French joe 'cheek, jaw', of unknown origin. Rhymes abhor, adore, afore, anymore, ashore, awe, bandore, Bangalore, before, boar, Boer, bore, caw, chore, claw, cocksure, comprador, cor, core, corps, craw, Delors, deplore, door, draw, drawer, evermore, explore, flaw, floor, for, forbore, fore, foresaw, forevermore, forswore, four, fourscore, furthermore, Gábor, galore, gnaw, gore, grantor, guarantor, guffaw, hard-core, Haugh, haw, hoar, ignore, implore, Indore, interwar, Johor, Lahore, law, lessor, lor, lore, macaw, man-o'-war, maw, mirador, mor, more, mortgagor, Mysore, nevermore, nor, oar, obligor, offshore, onshore, open-jaw, or, ore, outdoor, outwore, paw, poor, pore, pour, rapport, raw, roar, saw, scaur, score, senhor, señor, shaw, ship-to-shore, shop-floor, shore, signor, Singapore, snore, soar, softcore, sore, spore, store, straw, swore, Tagore, tau, taw, thaw, Thor, threescore, tor, tore, torr, trapdoor, tug-of-war, two-by-four, underfloor, underscore, war, warrantor, Waugh, whore, withdraw, wore, yaw, yore, your noun.1 phr. Definition of jaw in US English: jaw nounjôdʒɔ 1Each of the upper and lower bony structures in vertebrates forming the framework of the mouth and containing the teeth. Example sentencesExamples The lower jaw is the primary site of force transmission from the body and jaw muscles to the jaws, in mouth opening and, to a lesser extent, jaw closing. Humans may have learned about what a high fat, high protein meal the marrow was from the hyenas, who could crush bones with their jaws. Most diprotodonts have three pairs of incisors in their upper jaws, but this number is reduced to one pair in one family, the wombats. The jaw is undershot, which means the lower jaw is longer than the upper jaw. The crocodile had mounted an offense and taken the body of a native, crushing him in its jaws. Six of these measurements capture cranial shape, and eight capture dental adaptations of both the upper and the lower jaw. Fish with jaws usually have five functional pairs of gill arches. In others, the way the upper and lower jaws meet can cause teeth to look unsightly and lead to an incorrect bite. Orthodontic treatment may be able to correct this. I clench my jaws and remember my determination. See how a mother alligator protects her newborn hatchlings in her otherwise deadly jaws, and learn what dangers the babies face in the wild. Thomas cites the experience of a nineteenth-century explorer saved by a companion just as a lion's jaws had begun to crush his chest. Capybaras are classified with the hystricognaths, but their jaws appear to have secondarily become almost sciurognathous. Full dentures are needed when there are no teeth left in the upper or lower jaw. Massive carnivorous dinosaurs known as spinosaurs had snouts and jaws similar to modern fish-eating crocodiles. Ruminants also lack incisors in the upper jaw, and most lack canines in the upper jaw as well. The lower jaw of the haddock is slightly shorter than the upper jaw and the fish has a small single barbel. The primary skeletal difference between reptiles and mammals is found in the structure of their jaws. Named after their spotted coats and fearsome jaws, leopard seals have large, reptilian heads and streamlined bodies. The fossil skull's upper and lower jaws reveal deep channels and grooves that once held nerves and blood vessels. The dental arch of the lower jaw is in a state of mesial occlusion with that of the upper jaw. Synonyms jawbone, lower jaw, mandible 1.1 The lower movable bone of the jaw, or the part of the face containing it. she suffered a broken jaw Example sentencesExamples Perret claimed to have found that his beautiful faces did have something in common: higher cheek bones, a thinner jaw, and larger eyes relative to the size of the face. The lorry driver escaped unhurt but Butcher suffered serious head injuries and a broken jaw. She suffered a broken jaw, cheekbone, forearm and pelvis. She had to have reconstructive surgery at the weekend to repair a broken jaw and damage to her eye sockets. He almost died, and had to crawl his way to help despite broken bones and a shattered jaw. The 28-year-old victim suffered a broken jaw and black eyes, among other injuries. My cousin's jaw dropped and he said ‘how does a bin man know Bill Wyman?’ He suffered a broken femur, broken jaw and broken cheekbone. He received crush injuries, a fractured skull and a broken jaw and spent 11 days in hospital. It was feared that he may have brain damage and his injuries included broken ribs, a broken jaw, a punctured lung and shattered nerves in his right arm and right leg. In 1992 Gareth was offered the chance to have his jaw reconstructed, using bone from his leg, at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford. Steve Davey returns to the bench after making a remarkable recovery from a broken jaw suffered just three weeks ago. Mr Napier said the man suffered a broken nose, a broken jaw and a suspected fractured skull. He suffered burns to his hands and a broken jaw, and lost ‘a considerable amount of blood’. The implant material, made of highly biocompatible titanium, is inserted into the bone of the jaw. On 18 February 1992 a demonstration was violently attacked by the police and the Applicant suffered a broken jaw. But the world featherweight champion knows how to control that anger, how to focus the energy of his rage on the point of an opponent's jaw. The muscles joining the hyoid bone to the jaw should be relaxed so that the larynx is pulled forward and upwards. The sergeant's jaw dropped and it looked as if he was trying to strike Manny dead with a lightning bolt from his gaping mouth. Not only was Ali beaten by Norton in their first fight, but he also suffered a broken jaw in the fight. She looked at me straight in the eye, before clutching my jaw and opening my mouth with her index-finger. Synonyms jawbone, lower jaw, mandible 1.2jaws The mouth with its bones and teeth. Example sentencesExamples The thick skin, massive strength in the shoulders and neck, and vice grip jaws are there for a reason. For one thing, the average WAFR is around the same size as a Labrador, with front teeth some four inches long, and jaws capable of crushing human bone. It was not until the autofocus hit the mark that I noted the jaws of the scorpionfish trapping the poor butterfish. The dragon caught up with and snapped his jaws shut, trapping Xio inside. Joshua removed his staff to begin his assault on the beast; the creatures jaws snapped like a vice grip before him. Synonyms mouth, maw, muzzle, lips 1.3jaws The grasping, biting, or crushing mouthparts of an invertebrate. Example sentencesExamples Termites rush to a breach in their nest and clamp their jaws onto the snout of a marauding anteater, almost guaranteeing their own death. Scolecodonts are the isolated jaws of polychaete annelid worms. The termites use their jaws to turn the woody plant material and soil they bore through into tiny particles that the microbes can process. The buccal mass of cephalopods includes a pair of jaws termed beaks that are used to masticate prey. Others, such as the clam worm, are active, mobile predators that capture prey in jaws attached to their pharynges. Whereas arms and legs have more muscles than segments, the jaws and tongues of anurans are composed of relatively few muscles. The anapsids start out with elongate jaws and rostra, but the entire muzzle becomes progressively shorter across their phylospace. For an infected ant, when the declining air temperature hits a certain threshold, its jaws become locked in a closed position. Synonyms mouth, maw, muzzle, lips 1.4jaws Used to suggest the notion of being in danger from something such as death or defeat. victory was snatched from the jaws of defeat Example sentencesExamples Keighley Town grasped victory from the jaws of defeat thanks to a brilliant last minute individual try from Man of the Match Neil Kennedy. Indeed, sometimes even a layoff can carry within it the seeds of future success, and you can wrest something positive from the jaws of rejection. As many as 750 children have been rescued by Vathsalya from the jaws of despair, and perhaps death, some of them only a few months old. To our great relief, due to the joint efforts of six doctors who stayed with them in the intensive care unit for a couple of hours, they were ultimately snatched from the jaws of death. This adds up to more than 500 million people, who have been saved from the jaws of oppression and dominance. 1.5usually jaws The gripping parts of a tool or machine, such as a wrench or vise. Example sentencesExamples Make sure the jaws of the wrench or pliers are snug in position before you manipulate the handle, to avoid slippage or scraped knuckles. We got the guys from the motor pool to weld a gun mount on the outside of the cupola - the brace on my mount was a huge wrench with thee-inch jaws. Finally, the bucking pipe is gripped by the mechanical jaws of a massive clamp. The device subject of the patent in issue in that case was a ‘workbench’ which combined a workbench, a saw horse and a vice with elongated jaws. Cover the jaws of wrenches or vices with electrician's tape. 1.6jaws An opening likened to a mouth. a passenger stepping from the jaws of a ferry Example sentencesExamples She pried the trap open with her own arms, slowly the gaping jaws of the trap stood wide open, but she couldn't hold it like that anymore. From the jaws of the ferry in Tårs you are quickly led away from the cars and out through Sandby. Then we continued on our way, going deeper and deeper into the open jaws of the cave. The steel jaws of the traps, which will catch any animal or person walking in the bush, are ostensibly for use against jackals but are often used by poachers to trap game. 1.7informal Talk or gossip, especially when lengthy or tedious. committee work is just endless jaw we ought to have a jaw Synonyms chat, talk, conversation, gossip, chatter, chitter-chatter, heart-to-heart, tête-à-tête, powwow, blether, blather verbjôdʒɔ [no object]informal Talk at length; chatter. he could still hear men jawing away about the vacuum cleaners Example sentencesExamples I sit here jawing while Pavel enriches the world through his generous work. Most evenings as I'm coming home from work, Steve is out in front of the store, jawing with anyone who'll give him a minute of his or her time, cussing up a storm, flirting with all the women, and exhorting everyone to go in and buy stuff. By the end, they're just something to jaw about by the campfire. Doesn't it strike anyone as odd that we keep jawing away on ‘innocent until proven guilty’ but mainly about the high-flyers? Chesterton once observed that it was always perilous to talk politics with women because of the imminent danger that they would want to do something about it and not just go on jawing as men do. Synonyms chat, talk idly, chatter, prattle, prate, go on, run on, rattle away, rattle on, gossip, tittle-tattle, tattle, ramble, gabble, jabber, babble, blather, blether, blither, twitter, maunder, drivel, patter, yap, jibber-jabber, cackle Origin Late Middle English: from Old French joe ‘cheek, jaw’, of unknown origin.
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