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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD OSCULATE

From Latin ōsculārī to kiss.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF OSCULATE

osculate  [ˈɒskjʊˌleɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OSCULATE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Osculate is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb osculate in English.

WHAT DOES OSCULATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Osculate

In mathematics, osculate, meaning to touch, may refer to: ▪ osculant, an invariant of hypersurfaces. ▪ osculating circle ▪ osculating curve ▪ osculating plane ▪ osculating orbit The obsolete Quinarian system of biological classification attempted to group creatures into circles which could touch or overlap with adjacent circles, a phenomenon called 'osculation'.

Definition of osculate in the English dictionary

The first definition of osculate in the dictionary is to kiss. Other definition of osculate is to be intermediate between two taxonomic groups. Osculate is also to touch in osculation.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO OSCULATE

PRESENT

Present
I osculate
you osculate
he/she/it osculates
we osculate
you osculate
they osculate
Present continuous
I am osculating
you are osculating
he/she/it is osculating
we are osculating
you are osculating
they are osculating
Present perfect
I have osculated
you have osculated
he/she/it has osculated
we have osculated
you have osculated
they have osculated
Present perfect continuous
I have been osculating
you have been osculating
he/she/it has been osculating
we have been osculating
you have been osculating
they have been osculating
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I osculated
you osculated
he/she/it osculated
we osculated
you osculated
they osculated
Past continuous
I was osculating
you were osculating
he/she/it was osculating
we were osculating
you were osculating
they were osculating
Past perfect
I had osculated
you had osculated
he/she/it had osculated
we had osculated
you had osculated
they had osculated
Past perfect continuous
I had been osculating
you had been osculating
he/she/it had been osculating
we had been osculating
you had been osculating
they had been osculating
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will osculate
you will osculate
he/she/it will osculate
we will osculate
you will osculate
they will osculate
Future continuous
I will be osculating
you will be osculating
he/she/it will be osculating
we will be osculating
you will be osculating
they will be osculating
Future perfect
I will have osculated
you will have osculated
he/she/it will have osculated
we will have osculated
you will have osculated
they will have osculated
Future perfect continuous
I will have been osculating
you will have been osculating
he/she/it will have been osculating
we will have been osculating
you will have been osculating
they will have been osculating
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would osculate
you would osculate
he/she/it would osculate
we would osculate
you would osculate
they would osculate
Conditional continuous
I would be osculating
you would be osculating
he/she/it would be osculating
we would be osculating
you would be osculating
they would be osculating
Conditional perfect
I would have osculate
you would have osculate
he/she/it would have osculate
we would have osculate
you would have osculate
they would have osculate
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been osculating
you would have been osculating
he/she/it would have been osculating
we would have been osculating
you would have been osculating
they would have been osculating
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you osculate
we let´s osculate
you osculate
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to osculate
Past participle
osculated
Present Participle
osculating
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OSCULATE


accumulate
əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt
calculate
ˈkælkjʊˌleɪt
circulate
ˈsɜːkjʊˌleɪt
coagulate
kəʊˈæɡjʊˌleɪt
congratulate
kənˈɡrætjʊˌleɪt
cumulate
ˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt
ejaculate
ɪˈdʒækjʊˌleɪt
emulate
ˈɛmjʊˌleɪt
formulate
ˈfɔːmjʊˌleɪt
insulate
ˈɪnsjʊˌleɪt
manipulate
məˈnɪpjʊˌleɪt
modulate
ˈmɒdjʊˌleɪt
populate
ˈpɒpjʊˌleɪt
postulate
ˈpɒstjʊˌleɪt
reformulate
riːˈfɔːmjʊˌleɪt
regulate
ˈrɛɡjʊˌleɪt
simulate
ˈsɪmjʊˌleɪt
speculate
ˈspɛkjʊˌleɪt
stimulate
ˈstɪmjʊˌleɪt
stipulate
ˈstɪpjʊˌleɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OSCULATE

oscillography
oscilloscope
oscilloscopic
oscine
oscinine
oscitance
oscitancies
oscitancy
oscitant
oscitantly
oscitate
oscitation
Osco-Umbrian
oscula
osculant
oscular
osculation
osculatory
oscule
osculum

WORDS THAT END LIKE OSCULATE

absquatulate
articulate
chocolate
consulate
copulate
demodulate
depopulate
deregulate
emasculate
geniculate
immaculate
matriculate
ovulate
particulate
recalculate
recirculate
repopulate
reticulate
triangulate
undulate
ungulate

Synonyms and antonyms of osculate in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «osculate» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OSCULATE

Find out the translation of osculate to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of osculate from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «osculate» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

osculate
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

osculate
570 millions of speakers

English

osculate
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

चुंबन करना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

osculate
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

соприкасаются
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

osculate
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

চুম্বন করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

osculate
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Osculate
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

osculate
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

osculate
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

공유하다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Osculate
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hôn nhau
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முத்தம் இடு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वाटणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dayanmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

osculate
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

osculate
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

стикаються
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

oscila
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φιλώ
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

osculeren
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

osculate
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

osculate
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of osculate

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OSCULATE»

The term «osculate» is normally little used and occupies the 140.451 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OSCULATE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «osculate» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «osculate» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about osculate

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OSCULATE»

Discover the use of osculate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to osculate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Cosmic Calculator
Kenneth Williams, Mark Gaskell. The result we get from osculation (14 above) can also be osculated: in fact we can continue to osculate as many times as we like. 1. 4. 21 If we osculate 14 with 5 we get 4x5 + 1 = 21 (also clearly a multiple of 7) ...
Kenneth Williams, Mark Gaskell, 2002
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An Elementary Treatise on the Differential and Integral Calculus
Let y=fx represent what y = Fx becomes after we have substituted the values of these two constants ; then y =fo will be an osculate of the first order to the curve y =px ; and if (always by virtue of the arbitrary values that may be given to the ...
Jean-Louis Boucharlat, 1828
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An Elementary Treatise on the Differential and Integral ...
r-l—h be a positive quantity, i. e. if the ordinate P'M' of the curve be' greater than P 'N', the ordinate P”N" of the osculate will be greater than the ordinate P'M" of the curve ; whence we conclude that the osculate is on one side above the curve, ...
Jean Louis BOUCHARLAT, Ralph BLAKELOCK, 1828
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Report on the recent progress of discovery relative to ...
Fx = <f>x dFx_d<t>x d'Fx_d'<f>x dx dx ' dx' dx' d^^dyx dxn dx" ' We will proceed to shew, that of two osculates which we have thus obtained, by giving arbitrary values to the constants of the same equation, the osculate of an inferior order ...
Baden Powell, 1841
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A Geometric Theory of Conjugate Tooth Surfaces
E^2)*] at Qt vanishes along all directions, and E^1) and E^2) osculate at Qt. As it had been shown in 2.1, E(1) and E^2) also osculate at Qt, it follows that E^2) and E^2)* osculate at Qt. Since t is arbitrary, they osculate along - (2) Now in the ...
Ta-jen Wu, Daren Wu, Jia-shun Luo, 1992
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A short treatise on the principles of the differential and ...
~dxn~ — ~dxir ' We will proceed to shew, that of two osculates which we have thus obtained, by giving arbitrary values to the constants of the same equation, the osculate of an inferior order cannot pass between the other and the curve, ...
Baden Powell, 1829
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A Short Treatise on the Principles of the Differential and ...
be the curve y = <f>x, and C its osculate y = \px of the second order ; we have then to demonstrate that the osculate D, or y = fx of the first order cannot pass betwixt the curves B and C. For this purpose, by putting x + h in place of x, in these ...
Baden Powell, 1829
8
Billboard
ETTA JONES (Victor 20-1941) Osculate Me, Daddy— FT; V. Mean to Me— FT; V. Sounds like something the label dug up from the cellar, possibly thinking that many phono fans will think "Osculate" stands for something dirty. And if it is a fresh ...
9
Robert Hartwell Fiske's Dictionary of Unendurable English: A ...
O osculate Misused for oscillate. t 4POHT MJLF Stay Together are reminiscent of Funkadelic songs with their osculating beat. Use oscillating. t *G TP ZPV could try directing osculating fans toward the leaf zone. Use oscillating. t 4PNFUJNFT B ...
Robert Hartwell Fiske, 2011
10
Mathematical Dissertations, for the Use of Students in the ...
It is plain that two surfaces must mutually osculate at a point when the normal sections all osculate at that point. Now in order to this it is only necessary that the principal sections be in the same normal planes, and have respectively the same  ...
John Radford Young, 1841

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OSCULATE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term osculate is used in the context of the following news items.
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MORAGA Well-Represented at County Spelling Bee
Sarah coincidentally won the LP contest with the same word that won at JM, "apocalypse," and then she spelled "osculate." Sarah came in 11th ... «Lamorindaweekly, Mar 15»
2
After winning West Roxbury school bee, Roslindale student off to …
Each time the two grappled with ever more obscure words, including “osculate,” “primwort” and “cryonics,” before Shiferaw finally conquered ... «Wicked Local West Roxbury, Feb 15»
3
Seventh-grader overcomes nerves to win CHMS spelling bee
The seventh-grader was the last of 12 students standing when he correctly spelled "osculate," leaving eighth-grader Charlie Carter as the ... «Chicago Tribune, Feb 15»
4
Alternative 'milk' products a threat to dairy industry
But she said she believed producers would cut production worldwide and the market would osculate back. Speaking at the British Cattle ... «FarmersWeekly, Jan 15»
5
Is kissing in public an obscene act?
Before the protesters could osculate, however, they were carted off to the police station and charged with “unlawful assembly” and “disturbing ... «Livemint, Nov 14»
6
Ten family passes to opening night of Silvers Circus at Burnley Oval …
Its wheels osculate and revolve from ground level to dizzying heights, while two young men with nerves of steel run, jump skip and flip through ... «Herald Sun, Aug 14»
7
Silvers Circus passes won by Whitehorse, Free Press, Knox …
Its wheels osculate and revolve from ground level to dizzying heights, while two young men with nerves of steel run, jump skip and flip through ... «Herald Sun, Aug 14»
8
Best & Worst Dressed: Celebs Rock Riccardo Tisci (Photos)
His creations, which osculate between a feminine delicacy and hard-edged masculinity, have propelled the Italian-born creative director to ... «Daily Beast, Aug 14»
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Alia Bhatt confesses being considered as female Emraan Hashmi
From her debut film 'Student of the Year' to her upcoming film 'Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania' she has osculate scenes. She was seen quite ... «Parda Phash, Jun 14»
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11 fun word lists to drill your vocabulary on
In the past few days I've gained osculate, litotes, and flagitious. You can customize by choosing particular word lists to work on, and while many ... «The Week Magazine, Apr 14»

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