yawn

/yawn/US // yɔn //UK // (jɔːn) //

打呵欠,打哈欠,呵欠,哈欠

Definitions

v.无主动词 verb

1
- : to open the mouth somewhat involuntarily with a prolonged, deep inhalation and sighing or heavy exhalation, as from drowsiness or boredom.
- : to open wide like a mouth.
- : to extend or stretch wide, as an open and deep space.

v.有主动词 verb

1
- : to say with a yawn.
- : Archaic. to open wide, or lay open, as if by yawning.

n.名词 noun

verbopen mouth wide, usually sign of

Forms: yawning

Synonyms

So, a yawn could be a good way for an individual in a social species to communicate to group mates that it is experiencing some kind of internal change.
The team found that lions that saw another member of the pride yawn were about 139 times as likely to yawn themselves within the next three minutes.
Seeing the lions yawn reminded Palagi of her own work on contagious yawning in primates.
Watch a group of lions yawn, and it may seem like nothing more than big, lazy cats acting sleepy, but new research suggests that these yawns may be subtly communicating some important social cues.
That yawn is the greatest compliment an inventor can receive.
The arcane pair of paragraphs are packed with the sort of yawn-provoking polysyllables that only a lawyer could love.
Civil libertarians are outraged, but elsewhere the news was met with a collective yawn.
My greatest fear is that we will find out they are spying on us, and the American public will yawn.
He would read her his poetry, and she would stretch and yawn like a cat.
But so far, the markets have pretty much offered a big yawn.
He was about to stretch himself and give vent to a noisy yawn when the word “Laidlaw” smote his ear.

/yawn/US // yɔn //UK // (jɔːn) //

打呵欠,打哈欠,呵欠,哈欠

v.无主动词 verb

1
- : to open the mouth somewhat involuntarily with a prolonged, deep inhalation and sighing or heavy exhalation, as from drowsiness or boredom.
- : to open wide like a mouth.
- : to extend or stretch wide, as an open and deep space.

v.有主动词 verb

1
- : to say with a yawn.
- : Archaic. to open wide, or lay open, as if by yawning.

n.名词 noun

verbopen mouth wide, usually sign of

Forms: yawning

Synonyms

So, a yawn could be a good way for an individual in a social species to communicate to group mates that it is experiencing some kind of internal change.
The team found that lions that saw another member of the pride yawn were about 139 times as likely to yawn themselves within the next three minutes.
Seeing the lions yawn reminded Palagi of her own work on contagious yawning in primates.
Watch a group of lions yawn, and it may seem like nothing more than big, lazy cats acting sleepy, but new research suggests that these yawns may be subtly communicating some important social cues.
That yawn is the greatest compliment an inventor can receive.
The arcane pair of paragraphs are packed with the sort of yawn-provoking polysyllables that only a lawyer could love.
Civil libertarians are outraged, but elsewhere the news was met with a collective yawn.
My greatest fear is that we will find out they are spying on us, and the American public will yawn.
He would read her his poetry, and she would stretch and yawn like a cat.
But so far, the markets have pretty much offered a big yawn.
He was about to stretch himself and give vent to a noisy yawn when the word “Laidlaw” smote his ear.