According to WorldAtlas, Canada is the only non-European country to make its top ten list of coffee consumers. The United States at a distant 25 on the list.
snog, kiss, buss, osculate
(verb) 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”
osculate
(verb) have at least three points in common with; “one curve osculates the other”; “these two surfaces osculate”
osculate
(verb) be intermediate between two taxonomic groups; “These species osculate”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
osculate (third-person singular simple present osculates, present participle osculating, simple past and past participle osculated)
(transitive) To kiss someone or something.
(mathematics) To touch so as to have a common tangent at the point of contact.
(intransitive) To make contact.
(Vedic arithmetic) To perform osculation.
To form a connecting link between two genera.
osculate (not comparable)
Relating to kissing.
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Source: Wiktionary
Os"cu*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Osculated; p. pr. & vb. n. Osculating.] Etym: [L. osculatus, p. p. of osculari to kiss, fr. osculum a little mouth, a kiss, dim. of os mouth. See Oral, and cf. Oscillate.]
1. To kiss.
2. (Geom.)
Definition: To touch closely, so as to have a common curvature at the point of contact. See Osculation, 2.
Os"cu*late, v. i.
1. To kiss one another; to kiss.
2. (Geom.)
Definition: To touch closely. See Osculation, 2.
3. (Biol.)
Definition: To have characters in common with two genera or families, so as to form a connecting link between them; to interosculate. See Osculant.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 June 2025
(noun) (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business; “he is the owner of a chain of restaurants”
According to WorldAtlas, Canada is the only non-European country to make its top ten list of coffee consumers. The United States at a distant 25 on the list.