oral
IPA: ˈɔrʌɫ
noun
- (countable) A spoken test or examination, particularly in a language class.
- (countable, usually in the plural) A physical examination of the mouth.
- A male given name from Latin of American usage
- A city in Kazakhstan
- (uncountable, informal) Ellipsis of oral sex. [Stimulation of another person's genitals using the mouth.]
- (bodybuilding, countable) Ellipsis of oral steroid..
adjective
- (relational) Relating to the mouth.
- (pharmacology) Done or taken by the mouth.
- (phonetics, of a speech sound) Pronounced by the voice resonating in the mouth, as the vowels in English.
- (psychoanalysis, in Freudian theory) Relating to or denoting a stage of infantile psychosexual development during which libidinal gratification is derived from intake (as of food), by sucking, and later by biting.
- Of, relating to, or characterized by personality traits of passive dependency and aggressiveness.
- (relational) Spoken rather than written.
- Relating to the transmission of information or literature by word of mouth.
- Using speech or the lips especially in teaching the deaf.
- (sociolinguistics, of a society) Not having reached the stage of literacy.
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Examples of "oral" in Sentences
- They took an oral test.
- The message was delivered orally.
- The drug was used to be taken orally.
- Present the summary orally to students.
- That is precisely the point of the oral law.
- But 'verbal' instead of 'oral' is sometimes infelicitous.
- In fact, it predates the invention of oral contraceptives.
- The oral mucosa is the mucous membrane epithelium of the mouth.
- Oral sex is the term given to genital stimulation by the mouth.
- Oral Submucous Fibrosis is a chronic debilitating disease of the oral cavity.
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