orals

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Synonyms for orals

noun questioning and evaluation

Antonyms for orals

silence

Word Origin & History

1620s, from Late Latin oralis, from Latin os (genitive oris) "mouth, opening, face, entrance," from PIE *os-/*ous- "mouth" (cf. Sanskrit asan "mouth," asyam "mouth, opening," Avestan ah-, Hittite aish, Middle Irish a "mouth," Old Norse oss "mouth of a river," Old English or "beginning, origin, front"). Psychological meaning "of the mouth as the focus of infantile sexual energy" (e.g. oral fixation) is from 1910. The sexual sense is first recorded 1948, in Kinsey. As a noun, "oral examination," attested from 1876. Related: Orally (c.1600); orality.

Example Sentences for orals

See to it that he gets placed in the first relay for the written test, and gets first turn for the orals.

The plates of the anterior ring are known as the orals, those of the posterior as the basals.

These latter are therefore, as their name implies, radial in position; while the basals and orals are interradial.