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单词 orifice
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orificen.

Brit. /ˈɒrᵻfɪs/, U.S. /ˈɔrəfəs/
Forms: late Middle English– orifice, 1500s orifis, 1500s oryfice, 1500s oryfyce.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French orifice; Latin ōrificium.
Etymology: < Middle French, French orifice opening, aperture (1362–5; 1304 in Old French) and its etymon classical Latin ōrificium (2nd cent. a.d.) < ōri- , combining form of ōr- , ōs mouth (see oral adj.) + -fic- ( < facere to make: see fact n., int., and adv.) + -ium, neuter of -ius, suffix forming adjectives.
An opening or aperture, esp. one forming the communication between a cavity or hollow organ and the surface of an animal or plant body. Cf. mouth n., os n.3, ostium n.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > mouth or orifice
mouthOE
orifice?a1425
gull1545
chops1589
orifex1590
mouthpiece1683
maw1818
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Hunterian) f. 65 Þe vtilite whi þat þe gutte þat is cleped yleon oþer zirbus haþ but one orifice is be cause þat þe ffeces mowe dwelle þe longer in hym to þat alle þe succosite of þe ffeces mowe be drawen of þe laste veine miseraicis.
?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 94v (MED) And in as muche as it is possibel, be wele warre þat orifice of þe wounde be not stopped wiþ putrefaccioun oþer rotennesse.
?1525 R. Copland tr. Guido de Cauliaco Quest. Cyrurg. ii. sig. H j And ouer the thre oryfyces of the sayde thre ventrycles there be thre pellycles.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. xii. sig. M That same former fatall wound of his..Closely rankled vnder th'orifis. View more context for this quotation
1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husb. Table Hard Words Orifice is the mouth, hole, or open passage, of any wound or vlcer.
1623 J. Hart tr. P. van Foreest Arraignm. Vrines i. ii. 4 Both the bladders together with their orifices and concavities.
1671 J. Webster Metallographia vi. 108 It guided me to the orifice of a Lead Mine.
1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants iv. i. iv. 153 Certain open Pores or Orifices.
1700 J. Addison Milton's Stile Imitated iii, in Misc. Wks. (1726) I. 62 There gap'd The spacious hollow where his eye-ball roll'd, A ghastly orifice.
1713 J. Addison in Guardian 9 July 2/1 The Mountain represented Ætna, being bored thro' the top with a monstrous Orifice.
1745 Philos. Trans. 1744–5 (Royal Soc.) 43 114 To keep off the Injuries they might be exposed to, by an immediate Contact with the open Air, either in obstructing their Orifices,..or exhaling their liquid Contents too fast.
1858 D. Lardner Hand-bk. Nat. Philos.: Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, & Heat (new ed.) 80 The squares of the velocities of the liquid in passing through the orifice are proportional to the depth.
1862 C. Darwin On Var. Contrivances Orchids Fertilised iii. 125 The orifice into the nectar-receptacle lies..close to the lower side of the flower.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 189 The solid matters..fall in showers around the mouth of the orifice.
1920 Bot. Gaz. 69 19 It is not easy to see how otherwise the sporangium could be completely emptied through so narrow an orifice.
1961 B. Fergusson Watery Maze xii. 300 They evolved two compounds which anybody could apply in blocking the various orifices needing to be closed to water.
1995 K. Atkinson Behind Scenes at Museum (1996) viii. 233 The baby-David, who dribbles from every orifice and is always red in the face.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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