| 单词 | osculation | 
| 释义 | osculationn. 1.  The action of kissing; a kiss. ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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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