peck vs osculate
osculate vs peckpeck is a noun but osculate is not a noun.
peck and osculate both are verbs.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| peck | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| osculate | No | No | Yes | No |
As verbs,
osculate is a hypernym of
peck; that is, osculate is a
word with a broader meaning than peck:
- peck: kiss lightly
- 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 (noun) | osculate (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 |
| peck (verb) | osculate (verb) |
|---|---|
| bother persistently with trivial complaints | touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc. |
| eat by pecking at, like a bird | have at least three points in common with |
| eat like a bird | be intermediate between two taxonomic groups |
| kiss lightly | |
| hit lightly with a picking motion |
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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