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单词 osculation
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osculationn.

Brit. /ˌɒskjᵿˈleɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌɑskjəˈleɪʃ(ə)n/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin ōsculātiōn-, ōsculātiō.
Etymology: < classical Latin ōsculātiōn-, ōsculātiō the action of kissing < ōsculāt- , past participle of ōsculārī osculate v. + -iō -ion suffix1. Compare Middle French, French osculation (1509 in sense 1, 1750 in sense 2(b)).
1. The action of kissing; a kiss.
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the mind > emotion > love > kiss > [noun] > action of kissing
kissinga1300
bassing1546
lip-labour1582
bussing1583
smouching1583
slavering1607
lip-work1631
suaviation1656
deosculation1658
osculation1658
bussa1721
basiation1879
kissage1886
mugging1890
oscularity1926
snogging1945
smash-mouth1965
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Osculation, a kissing or imbracing.
1663 W. Clark Marciano iii. iv. 37 He told me, that you would not permit osculation.
1715 tr. G. Panciroli Hist. Memorable Things Lost I. iv. iv. 164 This Ceremony of Osculation was esteem'd such an Honour.
1769 T. Smollett Hist. & Adventures Atom I. 38 The osculation itself was soft, warm, emollient, and comfortable.
1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxiii. 220 If osculation is a mark of love, surely Mrs. Mack is the best of mothers.
1865 Sat. Rev. 23 Dec. 779/1 Promiscuous osculation is the last thing he dreams of.
1945 Russ. Rev. 5 74 Kodaya, whose Japanese training included nothing remotely bearing on public osculation, bent over.
1991 M. Scott Nudists may be Encountered 108 If you were to approach one [sc. a frog], ever so cautious, lips pursed for the coming osculation, it would leap, trailing warty legs.
2. Close contact, an instance of this; spec. (a) the mutual contact of blood vessels (obsolete); (b) Geometry contact of curves or surfaces which share a common tangent at the point of contact (also used analogously of spaces of higher dimension).
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the world > space > distance > nearness > [noun] > contiguity
toucha1398
contingence1561
concourse1570
admotion1603
collaterage1610
contact1626
contaction1628
contiguousness1639
contingencya1646
contiguity1648
concurrence1656
osculation1669
abuttal1797
tangency1813
touching1842
the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > [noun] > mutual contact of
osculation1669
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > fact or action of being connected or connecting > [noun] > uninterrupted connection of parts > inosculation
exosculation1634
osculation1669
inosculation1673
interosculation1889
the world > relative properties > number > geometry > curve > [noun] > touching
osculation1798
tactinvariant1856
superosculation1876
osculant1879
1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 130 The osculations of the vessels of the womb.
1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. ii. 45 These Osculations of the Lignous Body, and so the interception of the Insertions of the Cortical, are not to be observ'd by the traverse cut of the Root.
1798 Anti-Jacobin 16 Apr. 181/1 No Circles join in osculation sweet!
1816 tr. S. F. Lacroix Elem. Treat. Differential & Integral Calculus 116 Called the contact of osculation.
1840 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1838–40 1 37 Formation of ring or instant of osculation of limbs.
1860 F. W. Farrar Ess. Origin Lang. ix. 202 Are there any points of osculation between the languages of these three great distinct families?
1906 Jrnl. Philos. 3 226 This blending or osculation seemed to effect the rise and subsidence of the intellectual presentations.
1981 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 294 259 Most interactions between platelets (and red cells) and walls..consist of transient osculations rather than adhesion.
2012 Computer-aided Design 44 1108/2 Osculation yields a one point solution.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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