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osculate

POS

Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive)

HYPHEN

os=cu=late

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb osculate has 3 senses

osculate(v = verb.stative) Array - be intermediate between two taxonomic groups; "These species osculate"

is one way to

Sample sentence:
Something ----s

osculate(v = verb.stative) Array - have at least three points in common with; "one curve osculates the other"; "these two surfaces osculate"

is one way to

Derived form noun osculation₁

Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something ----s something

osculate(v = verb.contact) buss, kiss, snog - 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"

is one way to touch

Derived forms noun osculation₂, noun osculator₁

Sample sentence:
Sam cannot osculate Sue

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CIDE DICTIONARY

osculate, v. t. [L. osculatus, p. p. of osculari to kiss, fr. osculum a little mouth, a kiss, dim. of os mouth. See Oral, and cf. Oscillate.].

To kiss. [1913 Webster]
To touch closely, so as to have a common curvature at the point of contact. See Osculation, 2. [1913 Webster]

osculate, v. i.

To kiss one another; to kiss. [1913 Webster]
To touch closely. See Osculation, 2. [1913 Webster]
To have characters in common with two genera or families, so as to form a connecting link between them; to interosculate. See Osculant. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

osculate, v.
1 tr. Math. (of a curve or surface) have contact of at least the second order with; have two branches with a common tangent, with each branch extending in both directions of the tangent.
2 v.intr. & tr. joc. kiss.
3 intr. Biol. (of a species etc.) be related through an intermediate species; have common characteristics with another or with each other.

Derivative

osculant adj. osculation n. osculatory adj.

Etymology

L osculari kiss (as OSCULAR)

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THESAURUS

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

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ROGET THESAURUS

osculate

Contiguity

VB be contiguous, join, adjoin, abut on, march with, graze, touch, meet, osculate, come in contact, coincide, coexist, adhere, juxtapose, contact, join (unite), link (vinculum).

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