Oralとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɔː.ɹəl/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈɔ.ɹəl/
• (East Coast dialect) IPA: /ˈɑ.ɹəl/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /ˈoː.ɹəl/
• (Indic) IPA: /ˈorəl/
• (without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ōrʹəl, IPA: /ˈo(ː)ɹəl/
• (horse–hoarse merger) Homophone: aural
• 韻: -ɔːɹəl, -ɒɹəl

形容詞

oral (not comparable)

1. (relational) Relating to the mouth.

   Synonym: (rare) mouthly

   oral hygiene

   oral sex

   1. (pharmacology) Done or taken by the mouth.
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        And most neurologists are in the habit of prescribing antispasticity drugs like tizanidine and baclofen, which are oral and inexpensive, but which cause drowsiness and weaken every muscle in the body, not just the target ones.

   2. (phonetics, of a speech sound) Pronounced by the voice resonating in the mouth, as the vowels in English.
   3. (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.
   4. Of, relating to, or characterized by personality traits of passive dependency and aggressiveness.
2. (relational) Spoken rather than written.

   Synonyms: spoken, verbal

   Antonym: written

   an oral presentation

   an oral French exam

   1. Relating to the transmission of information or literature by word of mouth.
   2. Using speech or the lips especially in teaching the deaf.
   3. (sociolinguistics, of a society) Not having reached the stage of literacy.

派生語

関連する語

• oracy
• orature

名詞

oral (countable and uncountable, plural orals)

1. (countable) A spoken test or examination, particularly in a language class.

   We've got our Spanish oral tomorrow.

2. (countable, usually in the plural) A physical examination of the mouth.
3. (uncountable, informal) Ellipsis of oral sex.

   I gave my boyfriend oral for the first time on his birthday.

4. (bodybuilding, countable) Ellipsis of oral steroid.

参考

• aural

参照

• “oral”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “oral”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Further reading

• “oral”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “oral”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• -arol, Arlo, LoRa, Loar, Lora, Orla