jaw
1. the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth (Freq. 9)
• Hypernyms:
bone, os
• Hyponyms:
lower jaw, mandible, mandibula, mandibular bone, submaxilla,
lower jawbone, jawbone, jowl, upper jaw, upper jawbone, maxilla,
maxillary, chop
• Part Holonyms:
skull
• Part Meronyms:
alveolar arch, alveolar ridge, gum ridge, alveolar process
2. the bones of the skull that frame the mouth and serve to open it;
the bones that hold the teeth
• Hypernyms:
feature, lineament
• Part Holonyms:
face, human face
3. holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object
• Hypernyms:
holding device
• Part Holonyms:
bulldog clip, alligator clip, chuck, wrench, spanner,
vise, bench vise, pliers, pair of pliers, plyers
1. talk socially without exchanging too much information (Freq. 1)
- the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze
• Syn:
chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab,
chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip,
claver, visit
• Derivationally related forms:
visitor (for: visit), gossip (for: gossip), chatter (for: chatter), chatterer (for: chatter), chitchat (for: chitchat), confabulation (for: confabulate), chat (for: chat), chit chat (for: chitchat), chit-chat (for: chitchat)
• Hypernyms:
converse, discourse
• Hyponyms:
shmooze, shmoose, schmooze, schmoose, jawbone
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
2. talk incessantly and tiresomely (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
yack, yack away, rattle on, yap away
• Derivationally related forms:
yack (for: yack)
• Hypernyms:
talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
3. chew (food);
to bite and grind with the teeth
- He jawed his bubble gum
- Chew your food and don't swallow it!
- The cows were masticating the grass
• Syn:
chew, masticate, manducate
• Derivationally related forms:
mastication (for: masticate), chewer (for: chew), chew (for: chew), chewing (for: chew)
• Hypernyms:
grate, grind
• Hyponyms:
chomp, champ, mumble, gum, chaw,
crunch, munch, gnaw
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
4. censure severely or angrily
- The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car
- The deputy ragged the Prime Minister
- The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup
• Syn:
call on the carpet, take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce,
reproof, lecture, reprimand, dress down, call down, scold,
chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up,
have words, lambaste, lambast
• Derivationally related forms:
chiding (for: chide), scolder (for: scold), scolding (for: scold), reprimand (for: reprimand), lecture (for: lecture), reproof (for: reproof), rebuker (for: rebuke), rebuke (for: rebuke)
• Hypernyms:
knock, criticize, criticise, pick apart
• Hyponyms:
chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten, correct,
tell off, brush down
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Somebody ----s PP (for: have words)
- Somebody ----s PP (for: remonstrate)
- Somebody ----s PP
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