as in aperture
a place in a surface allowing passage into or through a thing
the mouth is a bodily orifice
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Recent Examples of orifice
This fleshy conglomerate feels vaguely seductive despite having only navels for orifices, only knee-like lumps for appendages.
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Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 27 Nov. 2024
The white exterior peered at me with flat orifices obscured through the mist, barely distinguishable from the dark sky behind it, as though all the world beyond the dome was cut from the same slab, only slightly effaced.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
Like other Ediacaran fossils, Quaestio doesn't seem to posses any orifices.
—David Bressan, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
Cory, who at this point has smoke billowing out of every orifice, flips out on Josh, who’s just betrayed him for the second time.
—Emma Sharpe, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
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Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 27 Nov. 2024
The white exterior peered at me with flat orifices obscured through the mist, barely distinguishable from the dark sky behind it, as though all the world beyond the dome was cut from the same slab, only slightly effaced.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
Like other Ediacaran fossils, Quaestio doesn't seem to posses any orifices.
—David Bressan, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
Cory, who at this point has smoke billowing out of every orifice, flips out on Josh, who’s just betrayed him for the second time.
—Emma Sharpe, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for orifice
Noun
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Although no design has been settled upon yet, a round-ish mirror with a minimum aperture of 26 feet (eight meters) has been mooted.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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Similarly, in astronomy, larger apertures, advances in photography and spectroscopy, the development of multi-wavelength astronomy beyond the visible light spectrum, and the first space telescopes all brought in new observational data that upended many pre-existing ideas.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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As the Republican candidate stood on the fifth-hole putting green, a Secret Service agent was riding a golf cart in a security sweep of the sixth hole and noticed someone hiding behind a chain-link fence in the southeast corner of the course.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep. 2025
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Untangle the roots and spread them out in their planting holes.—
Rita Pelczar,
Better Homes & Gardens,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Orifice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/orifice. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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