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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɒskjʊˌleɪt/, /ˈɒskjəˌleɪt/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈɑskjəˌleɪt/, /ˈɑskjuˌleɪt/

動詞

osculate (third-person singular simple present osculates, present participle osculating, simple past and past participle osculated)

1. (ambitransitive) To kiss.
   • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:

     And in the Olmsted Hotel in Cleveland he surprised a porter and a maid lasciviously osculating in a stairwell.

2. (mathematics) To touch so as to have the same tangent and curvature at the point of contact.
3. (intransitive) To make contact.
4. (Vedic arithmetic) To perform osculation.
5. To form a connecting link between two genera.

派生語

関連する語

• osculation

語源 2

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From Latin ōsculātus.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɒskjʊlət/, /ˈɒskjələt/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈɑskjələt/, /ˈɑskjulət/

形容詞

osculate (not comparable)

1. Relating to kissing.

   Synonym: osculatory

参照

アナグラム

• costulae, lacteous, locustae, scale out, scaleout