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# jaw

«jaw» in Mova's school dictionary: **One of the two bones at the bottom of the face that hold…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a jaw, jaws); verb (jaw, jaws, jawed, jawing — informal, rare: to talk a lot)

### meaning for a pupil

1) One of the two bones at the bottom of the face that hold the teeth; the lower jaw moves when you eat or speak. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jaw/#m1)

2) «Jaws» are the mouth parts of an animal, like a shark's or crocodile's jaws. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jaw/#m2)

3) The parts of a tool that grip things, like the jaws of a vice or pliers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jaw/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons on the skeleton and teeth: the jaw (mandible) is the only bone in the skull that moves; animals with strong jaws chew or bite hard. In stories: «his jaw dropped» shows great surprise; «in the jaws of danger» means very close to danger. Phrases: «jaw-dropping», «clench your jaw».

### examples

- The crocodile snapped its huge jaws shut. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jaw/#x1)
- My jaw hurts after the dentist. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jaw/#x2)
- Our lower jaw moves when we chew. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jaw/#x3)
- His jaw dropped when he saw the giant cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jaw/#x4)
- Sharks have rows of sharp teeth in their jaws. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jaw/#x5)
- The jaws of the clamp hold the wood still. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jaw/#x6)
- The magician did a jaw-dropping trick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jaw/#x7)
- Then the dragon opened her jaws wider and wider and wider. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jaw/#x8)

### note

Countable: a jaw, jaws. «Jaw-dropping» means amazing. The jaw is a bone, not a muscle, but strong muscles move it. «Jaws» is also the name of a famous scary shark film.

### In the corpora

- [The alligator snapping turtle lures fish with a pink worm-shaped flap on its tongue and then snaps its jaws shut.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/16/)
- [Snakes have no outer ears and hear little of sounds in the air, but they feel vibrations through the ground and their jaws.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/87-reptile-house-snakes/10/)
- [Komodo dragons have venom glands in their jaws; the venom stops blood clotting and weakens prey.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards/7/)
- [People once thought germs in the Komodo dragon's mouth killed its prey, but scientists found it has venom glands in its jaw.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs/5/)
- [Trap-jaw ants snap their jaws so fast they can fling themselves into the air.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/304-ants-of-the-world-weaver-ants-bullet-ants-honeypot-ants-and-trap-jaw-ants/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «jaw» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jaw/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.