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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
An object used to obstruct a hole, such as a fissure of the palate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, sciences, surgery
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noun
The membrane vessels, etc. that close the obturator foramen, or thyroid foramen, a large opening or fenestra in the anterior part of the hip bone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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noun
A valve closure member (disk, gate, plug, etc.).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
Any device for preventing the escape of gas through the breech mechanism of a breech-loading gun; a gas check.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: engineering, firearms, government, military, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, politics, tools, war, weaponry
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noun
A camera shutter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: arts, hobbies, lifestyle, photography
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noun
a prosthesis used to close an opening (as to close an opening of the hard palate in cases of cleft palate)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: prosthesis, prosthetic device
History
From Latin obtūrō (“to stop, block up”).
