| 单词 | osculate |
| 释义 | osculate (once / 44941 pages) 1v 2v 3v To osculate is to kiss or touch with your lips. If you osculate your dog on the mouth, some of your family members will laugh while others will be disgusted. The kind of kiss you give when you osculate is by definition either a goofy one or an almost exaggeratedly formal one, like a dapper gentleman who kisses a lady's hand. There is also a mathematical definition of osculate, which is almost like a math kiss: when two surfaces or two curves touch in at least three points. The Latin root word is osculum, kiss, or literally little mouth. WORD FAMILYosculate: inosculate, osculated, osculating, osculation, osculator+/inosculate: inosculated, inosculates, inosculating, inosculation/inosculation: inosculations/osculation: osculations USAGE EXAMPLESIt gleams and sparkles in the sunlight and invites lovers to enter and osculate. New York Times(Jul 07, 2016) It cuts the osculating plane in a line called the principal normal. Various, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edit...(2011) For the osculating circle at any point includes the whole of the curve which lies beyond; and the successive convolutions envelop one another without intersection. Various, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edit...(2010) 1 v touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc. 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper buss, kiss, snog peck, smack kiss lightly touch make physical contact with, come in contact with v have at least three points in common with 3one curve osculates the other these two surfaces osculate Hyper share have in common v be intermediate between two taxonomic groups These species osculate Hyper be have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) |
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