osculate vs peck
peck vs osculateosculate is not a noun while peck is a noun.
osculate and peck both are verbs.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| osculate | No | No | Yes | No |
| peck | Yes | No | Yes | No |
As verbs,
peck is a hyponym of
osculate; that is, peck is a
word with a more specific, narrower meaning than
osculate:
- osculate: touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.
- peck: kiss lightly
Other hyponyms of osculate include
smack.
| osculate (noun) | peck (noun) |
|---|---|
| a light kiss | |
| bite by a bird | |
| (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | |
| a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches | |
| a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons |
| osculate (verb) | peck (verb) |
|---|---|
| touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc. | bother persistently with trivial complaints |
| have at least three points in common with | eat by pecking at, like a bird |
| be intermediate between two taxonomic groups | eat like a bird |
| kiss lightly | |
| hit lightly with a picking motion |
Words related to "osculate"
Words related to "peck"
- British capacity unit
- Imperial capacity unit
- United States dry unit
- batch
- beak
- bite
- bushel
- buss
- chomp
- complain
- deal
- deluge
- dry quart
- eat
- flock
- flood
- good deal
- great deal
- hatful
- haymow
- heap
- hen-peck
- inundation
- kick
- kiss
- kvetch
- large indefinite amount
- large indefinite quantity
- lot
- mass
- mess
- mickle
- mint
- mountain
- muckle
- nag
- osculate
- osculation
- passel
- peck at
- pecker
- pick
- pick at
- pick up
- pile
- plain
- plenty
- pot
- quart
- quetch
- quite a little
- raft
- sight
- slew
- smack
- snog
- sound off
- spate
- stack
- strike
- tidy sum
- torrent
- wad
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