Definition of Oral

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Definition of Oral
	Oral Uttered by the mouth, or in words; spoken, not written; verbal; as, oral traditions; oral testimony; oral law. Of or pertaining to the mouth; surrounding or lining the mouth; as, oral cilia or cirri. Related Definitions: As, By, Cilia, Cirri, In, Law, Lining, Mouth, Not, Of, Or, Oral, Pertaining, Spoken, Surrounding, Testimony, The, To, Uttered, Verbal, Written

Oral Quotations

I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.'
Woody Allen

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
James Thurber

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
Jorge Luis Borges

Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.
Barbara Bush

The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories.
Spencer Bachus

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.
David Antin

The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember.
David Antin

There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.
David Antin

Recent demonstration projects have shown that with some Federal support, a little funding can go a long way toward ensuring that low-income children have access to good oral health care.
Michael K. Simpson

If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.
Johann Most

Oral Translations

oral in Dutch is mondeling, oraal
oral in French is de vive voix
oral in Italian is orale
oral in Spanish is oral
oral in Swedish is muntlig

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