Meaning of OSCULATE
| Pronunciation: | | 'âskyu`leyt
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | buss, kiss |
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| | See Also: | | be, peck, share, smack, touch | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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| | Related Terms: | | 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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