osculate

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈɒskjʊˌleɪt/|/ˈɒskjəˌleɪt/    美 /ˈɑskjəˌleɪt/|/ˈɑskjuˌleɪt/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To kiss. ambitransitive
    — And in the Olmsted Hotel in Cleveland he surprised a porter and a maid lasciviously osculating in a stairwell.
  2. To touch so as to have the same tangent and curvature at the point of contact.
  3. To make contact. intransitive
  4. To perform osculation. Vedic
  5. To form a connecting link between two genera.
形容词 adj.
  1. Relating to kissing. not-comparable

词形变化

osculates present,singular,third-person osculating participle,present osculated participle,past osculated past

词汇关系

衍生词
hyperosculate inosculate interosculate osculating osculator osculatory
相关词
osculation

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Latin ōsculātus, perfect active participle of ōsculor (“to kiss”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ōsculum (“a kiss”) + -or (verbal suffix), from ōs (“mouth”) + -culum (diminutive suffix). See also oscillate.
词源 2
From Latin ōsculātus.
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