Osculate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To kiss.
  • v. Mathematics To have three or more points coincident with.
  • verb-intransitive. To come together; contact.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To kiss someone or something.
  • v. To touch so as to have a common tangent at the point of contact.
  • v. To make contact.
  • v. To perform osculation.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To kiss.
  • v. To touch closely, so as to have a common curvature at the point of contact. See Osculation, 2.
  • verb-intransitive. To kiss one another; to kiss.
  • verb-intransitive. To touch closely. See Osculation, 2.
  • verb-intransitive. To have characters in common with two genera or families, so as to form a connecting link between them; to interosculate. See Osculant.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To salute with a kiss; kiss.
  • In geometry, to have a higher contact with; touch as closely as possible.
  • To kiss one another; kiss.
  • In geometry, to have, as two loci, three or more coincident and successive points in common. See I., 2.
  • In natural history, to share the characters of another group.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. have at least three points in common with
  • v. touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.
  • v. be intermediate between two taxonomic groups
    • Verb Form
    osculated    osculates    osculating   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    share    be   
    Variant
    osculation    osculant   
    Form
    osculatory    osculation    osculating   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    kiss   
     
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