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orifice
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Word definitions for orifice in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A mouth or aperture, as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening; as,
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An orifice is any opening, mouth , hole or vent, as in a pipe, a plate, or a body Body orifice , any opening in the body of an animal Orifice plate , a restriction used to measure flow or to control pressure or flow, sometimes given specialised names: Calibrated ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Blood gushed from the open orifice . ▪ Flames were leaping from every orifice of the house. ▪ I felt sure I could work it through the orifice without cutting the sphincter. ▪ Then the microbes continue to multiply in their stomachs ...
Usage examples of orifice.
But then, avaunt, you ghost, back to the orifice, back and avaunt, avaunt, I say!
Most stickies simply had a gaping buccal orifice, fringed with ragged porcine hairs, that dribbled wetly.
PREFACE The Murder IT WAS ON THE SEVENTH TIME THEY HAD PUSHED THE AMERICAN boy down into the liquid excrement of the cesspit that he failed to fight back, and died down there, every orifice filled with unspeakable filth.
Vppon the which there was placed an other vessell as it were a circular couer of a most curious leafe worke, with a smal coronice, and an artificiall orifice.
Huomeng looked like a cybernaut with tubes sprouting from his chest and every orifice.
Which orifice we use to express it does not affect my pleasure in your company.
Both of her desperately quivering orifices were voraciously sucking in on the dually fucking instruments within them .
A ragged opening at the esophageal orifice, on the anterior surface of the stomach was found.
This orifice was nearly twenty feet in width, but scarcely two in height.
It did not split his armor, but flame and hot gas jetted from every vent and orifice.
The hole, or recess, in this bench, whose position is indicated by the dotted lines on the plan, is the sacred orifice from which the katchina is said to come, and is called the katchinkihu.
Cult of the Dead Cow, a hacker gang headquartered in Lubbock, Texas, put on a mediagenic show to promote its Back Orifice 2000 break-in program.
I felt my mihrab begin to open and stretch, like a mouth yawning, and the lips of it continued to gape wider, until they must have made the orifice a full circle, like a mouth screaming.
The artist had sealed the open orifices of the mouth, nose and eyeballs with patches of white nephritic jade which contrasted sharply with the greenish color of the rest of the skull.
The older observers thought this woman must have had two orifices to her womb, one of which had some connection with the stomach, as they had records of the dissection of a female in whom was found a conformation similar to this.