Jaw vs. Chin

Jawnoun

One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.

Jawnoun

The part of the face below the mouth.

Jawnoun

(figuratively) Anything resembling the jaw of an animal in form or action; especially plural, the mouth or way of entrance.

Jawnoun

A notch or opening.

Jawnoun

A notched or forked part, adapted for holding an object in place.

Jawnoun

One of a pair of opposing parts which are movable towards or from each other, for grasping or crushing anything between them.

Jawnoun

(nautical) The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.

Jawnoun

Impudent or abusive talk.

Jawnoun

(slang) Axle guard.

Jawnoun

(snooker) The curved part of the cushion marking the entry to the pocket.

Jawverb

(transitive) To assail or abuse by scolding.

Jawverb

(intransitive) To scold; to clamor.

Jawverb

To talk; to converse.

Jawverb

(of a ball) To stick in the jaws of a pocket.

Jawadjective

(used in certain set phrases like jaw harp, jaw harpist and jaw's-trump)

Jawnoun

One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.

Jawnoun

Fig.: Anything resembling the jaw of an animal in form or action; esp., pl., the mouth or way of entrance; as, the jaws of a pass; the jaws of darkness; the jaws of death.

Jawnoun

A notch or opening.

Jawnoun

The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.

Jawnoun

Impudent or abusive talk.

Jawverb

To scold; to clamor.

Jawverb

To talk idly, long-windedly, or without special purpose.

Jawverb

To assail or abuse by scolding.

Jawnoun

the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth

Jawnoun

the bones of the skull that frame the mouth and serve to open it; the bones that hold the teeth

Jawnoun

holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object

Jawverb

talk socially without exchanging too much information;

Jawverb

talk incessantly and tiresomely

Jawverb

chew (food);

Jawverb

censure severely or angrily;

Jaw

The jaw is any opposable articulated structure at the entrance of the mouth, typically used for grasping and manipulating food. The term jaws is also broadly applied to the whole of the structures constituting the vault of the mouth and serving to open and close it and is part of the body plan of humans and most animals.

Chinnoun

The bottom of a face, the typically jutting jawline below the mouth.

Chinnoun

Talk.

Chinnoun

A lie, a falsehood.

Chinnoun

The ability to withstand being punched in the chin without being knocked out.

Chinnoun

(endearing) a chinchilla.

Chinverb

To talk.

Chinverb

To talk to or with (someone).

Chinverb

To perform a chin-up exercise in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar.

Chinverb

To punch or hit (someone)'s chin part of the body.

Chinverb

(transitive) To put or hold (a musical instrument) up to one's chin.

Chinverb

(transitive) To turn on or operate (a device) using one's chin; to select (a particular setting) using one's chin.

Chinverb

(transitive) To put one's chin on (something).

Chinverb

(transitive) To indicate or point toward (someone or something) with one's chin.

Chinnoun

The lower extremity of the face below the mouth; the point of the under jaw.

Chinnoun

The exterior or under surface embraced between the branches of the lower jaw bone, in birds.

Chinnoun

the protruding part of the lower jaw

Chinnoun

Kamarupan languages spoken in western Burma and Bangladesh and easternmost India

Chinverb

in gymnastics: raise oneself while hanging from one's hands until one's chin is level with the support bar

Chin

The human chin (also known as the mental protuberance, mental eminence and, rarely, mental osseum, tuber symphyseos) refers to the forward pointed part of the anterior mandible (mental region) below the lower lip. A fully developed human skull has a chin of between 0.7 cm and 1.1 cm.