orally
By mouthBy mouth.
» We're going to orally present our project.
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2 senses(not comparable)By mouth.
This medicine is taken orally. Swallowing a pill sure beats getting a shot every day.
Pleasure your partner orally and manually.
oral
ора́льноorálʹno
(of drugs) through the mouth rather than through injection; by mouth
(not comparable)Spoken as opposed to written.
I took the make-up test orally because my arm is still in a cast.
mündlich
у́стноústno
у́сноúsno
by spoken rather than written means
Examples
5 sentencesWe're going to orally present our project.
Yanni orally recited the story to his younger brothers.
What's the effect of taking the medication orally versus applying it as eye drops?
deWie wirkt das Medikament, wenn es nicht in Form von Augentropfen, sondern oral verabreicht wird? — Pfirsichbaeumchen
And of course, a speaker usually communicates in two ways, orally as well as through gestures.
deUnd natürlich kommuniziert ein Sprecher für gewöhnlich auf zwei Weisen: sowohl mündlich wie durch Gestik. — Tamy
Franz Kafka said, in "The Lost Time" (or perhaps, orally, Woody Allen): "Eternity is long ... especially around the end."
Translations
8 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 2
By meaning 2
Synonyms
1 synonyms- by spoken rather than written means:by word of mouth
Word family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A2Adverbs of manner — Because it is an -ly adverb
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.