Difference between Yaw and Gape

What is the difference between Yaw and Gape?

Yaw as a verb is to turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course. while Gape as a verb is to open the mouth wide.

Yaw

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course. To swerve off course to port or starboard. To steer badly, zigzagging back and forth across the intended course of a boat; to go out of the line of course.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The rotation of an aircraft, ship, or missile about its vertical axis so as to cause the longitudinal axis of the aircraft, ship, or missile to deviate from the flight line or heading in its horizontal plane. The angle between the longitudinal axis of a projectile at any moment and the tangent to the trajectory in the corresponding point of flight of the projectile. An act of yawing. A vessel's motion rotating about the vertical axis, so the bow yaws from side to side; a characteristic of unsteadiness. The extent of yawing, the rotation angle about the vertical axis

Gape

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To open the mouth wide.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An act of gaping; a yawn.

We hope you now know whether to use Yaw or Gape in your sentence.

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