inosculate
/ɪˈnɒs.kjʊˌleɪt/
inosculate verb: to homogenize; to make continuous.
Verb
inosculate (third-person singular simple present inosculates, present participle inosculating, simple past and past participle inosculated)
- To homogenize; to make continuous.
- Synonyms:
- blend, fuse, homogenize, uniformize
- To open into.
- The party left the town of Martaban on the 20th March; they passed two grassy and level islands just above the junction of the Gyein river with the main one. […] This inosculating river is about half the breadth of the Sanloon.1826 November, “Survey of the River Sanloon”, in The Asiatic Journal, volume 22, number 131, page 550
- To unite.
- Clouds sometimes inosculate with smoke. Howard mentions several cases in his Journals. "The smoke of London," he observes, "when passing away in a body swelled up into distinct heaps, each of which inosculated at its summit with a small Cloud. Groups of Cumulo Stratus, the Cumulus and Cirro Stratus...1834, George Harvey, “On Clouds”, in A Treatise on Meteorology, page 161
- Synonyms:
- interosculate, affix, attach, join, put together, accouple, assemble, associate, bewed, bind
- To intercommunicate; to interjoin.
- But that, alas! is impossible. Hearken to the nature of the fix in which I find myself, and say if you ever heard of a worse. Under ordinary circumstances, if one outruns the usual allowance of space, one has but to say at the foot of the paper, To be continued, and all is healed. Any paper may be...1852, Thomas De Quincey, “Sir William Hamilton”, in Hogg's Weekly Instructor, volume 8, Edinburgh: James Hogg, page 404; reprinted in The Collected Writings Of Thomas De Quincey, volume 5, London: A...
Adjective
inosculate (comparative more inosculate, superlative most inosculate)
- Pertaining to or characterized by inosculation.
- However, not all physicians of that age were convinced about the inosculate nature of these diseases, and debate continued unabated until the tragic self-experimentation of John Hunter in 1767.1971, Frederick Tice, Tice's practice of medicine - Volume 3
- The choice between normal, inverse, and inosculate strategies required some attention if only to emphasize the difference between the inosculate approach and much early work on numerical taxonomy.1973, Australian Journal of Botany, page 272
inosculate meaning in Urdu
inosculate in Urdu
- باہم ملنا, جڑنا, پیوست ہونا, باہم ملانا, جوڑنا, پیوست کرنا
Examples of inosculate in a sentence
- "The smoke of London," he observes, "when passing away in a body swelled up into distinct heaps, each of which inosculated at its summit with a small Cloud.1834, George Harvey, “On Clouds”, in A Treatise on Meteorology, page 161:
- The several monthly divisions of the journal may inosculate, but not the several volumes.1852, Thomas De Quincey, “Sir William Hamilton”, in Hogg's Weekly Instructor, volume 8, Edinburgh: James Hogg, page 404; reprinted in The...
- This study proposes to trace the inosculate nature of the mask theme in Nietzsche's philosophy.1983, Dissertation Abstracts International: The humanities and social sciences:
- The trunks of inosculate, or self-grafting, trees, such as Elm, Live Oak, and Dogwood, are the load-bearing structure, and the branches from a continuous lattice frame for the walls and roof.2005, Kjersti Monson, Alex Duval, Emily Abruzzo, 306090 08: Autonomous Urbanism, →ISBN:
Synonyms of inosculate
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Forms of inosculate
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | inosculates |
| present participle | inosculating |
| past participle | inosculated |
| past | inosculated |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more inosculate |
| superlative | most inosculate |
Origin of inosculate
First attested in 1672; from in- + osculate or its Latin etymon ōsculātus, perfect active participle of Latin osculor (“to kiss”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)) from ōsculum (“a kiss”). The adjective is a back-formation from inosculation, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Questions about inosculate
- What does inosculate mean?
- Inosculate means to homogenize; to make continuous.
- What is inosculate in Urdu?
- Inosculate in Urdu is باہم ملنا, جڑنا, پیوست ہونا. See Inosculate meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use inosculate in a sentence?
- "The smoke of London," he observes, "when passing away in a body swelled up into distinct heaps, each of which inosculated at its summit with a small Cloud.
- What part of speech is inosculate?
- Inosculate can be a verb or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce inosculate?
- Inosculate is pronounced /ɪˈnɒs.kjʊˌleɪt/.
- What is the past tense of inosculate?
- The past tense of inosculate is inosculated.
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