osculate

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

verb

1. be intermediate between two taxonomic groups
- These species osculate
• Hypernyms:
be
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
2. have at least three points in common with
- one curve osculates the other
- these two surfaces osculate
• Derivationally related forms:
osculation
• Topics:
mathematics, math, maths
• Hypernyms:
share
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Something ----s something
3. 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
• Syn:
snog, kiss, buss
• Derivationally related forms:
osculation, osculator, buss (for: buss), kiss (for: kiss), kisser (for: kiss), kissing (for: kiss), snogging (for: snog)
• Hypernyms:
touch
• Hyponyms:
smack, peck
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Somebody ----s somebody PP
- Somebody ----s something PP
- Sam cannot osculate Sue

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  snog, kiss, buss