About The Word Osculate
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Osculate
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What's The Definition Of Osculate?
[v] touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.; "The newly married couple kissed"; "She kissed her grandfather on the forehead when she entered the room"
[v] mathematics: have at least three points in common with; "one curve osculates the other"; "these two surfaces osculate" [v] biology: be intermediate between two taxonomic groups; "These species osculate" Synonyms | Synonyms for Osculate: buss | kiss Related Terms | Find terms related to Osculate: blow a kiss | brush | brush by | bus | buss | caress | come in contact | contact | glance | graze | hit | impinge | kiss | lip | nudge | peck | rub | scrape | shave | sideswipe | skim | skirt | smack | smooch | squeak by | touch See Also | be | peck | share | smack | touch Osculate In Webster's Dictionary \Os"cu*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Osculated}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Osculating}.] [L. osculatus, p. p. of osculari to
kiss, fr. osculum a little mouth, a kiss, dim. of os mouth.
See {Oral}, and cf. {Oscillate}.]
1. To kiss.
2. (Geom.) To touch closely, so as to have a common curvature
at the point of contact. See {Osculation}, 2.
\Os"cu*late\, v. i. 1. To kiss one another; to kiss. 2. (Geom.) To touch closely. See {Osculation}, 2. 3. (Biol.) To have characters in common with two genera or families, so as to form a connecting link between them; to interosculate. See {Osculant}. |
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