What's the difference between kiss and peck?

Kiss


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To salute with the lips, as a mark of affection, reverence, submission, forgiveness, etc.
  • (v. t.) To touch gently, as if fondly or caressingly.
  • (v. i.) To make or give salutation with the lips in token of love, respect, etc.; as, kiss and make friends.
  • (v. i.) To meet; to come in contact; to touch fondly.
  • (v.) A salutation with the lips, as a token of affection, respect, etc.; as, a parting kiss; a kiss of reconciliation.
  • (v.) A small piece of confectionery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The station programmer of the year went to Andy Roberts of dance station Kiss.
  • (2) You’ve got just as much right to be here as anyone else.” I could have kissed her.
  • (3) Summer Zervos: Apprentice contestant claims Trump kissed and groped her Read more “There’s an old principle,” said William Galston , a former adviser to Bill Clinton and now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
  • (4) Googlers in 2014 were also asking for tips on learning new skills, with the most popular being “how to draw”, followed by “how to kiss” and “how to crochet”.
  • (5) On stage at La Bastille after his election victory, footage showed that after Hollande gave Royal a kiss on the cheek, Trierweiler demanded of him: "Kiss me on the mouth."
  • (6) "Technically there's no reason why, just because I'm cut down there, I couldn't feel sexy when a guy is kissing me or touching my breasts.
  • (7) Thierry Henry with Youri Djorkaeff, kissing the World Cup after France’s triumph in Paris in 1998.
  • (8) Kiss, K. J. Sparks, W. S. Argraves, G. Hampikian, and P. F. Goetinck.
  • (9) I don’t really care how a candidate shakes hands and kisses babies.” An hour later, Bill and Hillary were on stage.
  • (10) Perhaps aware of her Marmite appeal, today Gaga is immediately on the charm offensive, giving me a kiss on arrival and complementing me on my shoes (at one point she bends down to stroke the material).
  • (11) Eady's initial ruling said there "can be no automatic priority accorded to freedom of speech" and that "as in so many 'kiss and tell' cases" there was no obvious justification in naming the player on public interest grounds.
  • (12) Bauer is proposing to run stations on the Sound Digital platform, including Heat Radio, Absolute 80s and Planet Rock, all of which are already well established on digital platforms, and Kiss spin-off, Kisstory.
  • (13) It feels like it was only yesterday that I was kicking Blue Jasmine down the stairs like Tommy Udo in Kiss Of Death.
  • (14) Because embedded in this otherwise innocuous kiss-and-tell is a devastating revelation about Hollande: "He presented himself," writes Trierweiler, "as the man who doesn't like the rich.
  • (15) At first, the sheer deluge of random faces, selfies, girls kissing other girls (is that a thing nowadays?)
  • (16) In the first year certain forms of "early beginnings of the kiss" can be recognized.
  • (17) I thought at the time he was a relative and then he started kissing her and running his hands up and down her arms and then started to molest here and there wasn't a think I could do about it because I was laid on my back," she told BBC News.
  • (18) But had she been allowed in unmolested there would have been a risk of some lesbian kissing going on.
  • (19) With Diego I wanted him to do a certain movement that he didn’t and I was disappointed and reacted and he reacted too, but at half-time in the dressing room there were a few kisses and cuddles,” Mourinho said after the game.
  • (20) That my first kiss could be in somebody else’s clothes.

Peck


Definition:

  • (n.) The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat.
  • (n.) A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
  • (v.) To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks a tree.
  • (v.) Hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick, etc., with repeated quick movements.
  • (v.) To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; -- often with up.
  • (v.) To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree.
  • (v. i.) To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument.
  • (v. i.) To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat.
  • (n.) A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The first was a passive avoidance task in which the chicks were allowed to peck at a green training stimulus (a small light-emitting diode, LED) coated in the bitter liquid, methylanthranilate, giving rise to a strong disgust response and consequent avoidance of the green stimulus.
  • (2) The rate of key pecking in a component was negatively related to the proportion of reinforcers from the alternative (variable-time) source.
  • (3) No pigeon attacked the target; one pecked the shockplug on its back.
  • (4) This 'object' function is the summation of the food uptake by one second of pecking and one second of filter feeding.
  • (5) So strong is this image of Peck that his few honourable attempts at comedy, and his less successful portrayals of the baddie, are often forgotten.
  • (6) Hens socially dominant in three bird pens had higher liver fat accumulation than hens lower on the peck order but liver fat accumulation for the dominant hens still averaged less than hens housed either two or one per cage.
  • (7) He tweeted on Wednesday: “I did not pull out of presenting the Rory Peck Awards - they dropped me.” The awards were set up in 1995 in memory of freelance cameraman Rory Peck, who was killed in Moscow in 1993.
  • (8) Pigeons were trained to peck a key on a multi FR30-FI3' schedule.
  • (9) Five pigeons pecked for food reinforcers on a concurrent variable-interval one-minute, variable-interval four-minute schedule.
  • (10) Day-old chicks peck when offered a bright bead; if the bead is coated with the bitter-tasting methylanthranilate (M) they avoid it thereafter.
  • (11) "You also said we haven't ended up with local radio at the bottom of the pecking order.
  • (12) The drug initially produced a marked decrease in aggressive behavior but had little or no effect on key pecking.
  • (13) The results showed that pigeons alternate when frequency-dependent selection is applied to single pecks because alternation is an easy-to-learn stable pattern that satisfies the frequency-dependent condition.
  • (14) At 6ft 3in tall, the lanky Peck was a pillar of moral rectitude standing up for decency and tolerance.
  • (15) The effects of three amphetamine analogs were assessed in pigeons key pecking under a multiple 3-min fixed-interval (FI), 30 response fixed-ratio (FR) schedule of food presentation.
  • (16) Subsequently, over three phases, additions were made during the random-interval 1-minute component as follows: pecks during the component occasionally were punished by timeout presentation (Phase 1), timeouts were presented independently of responding during the component (Phase 2), pecks during the component occasionally were punished by electric-shock presentation (Phase 3).
  • (17) Trade ministers, much lower down the pecking order, are more sanguine.
  • (18) Genetic stock by age and beak treatment by age interactions were present for hen-housed production and egg mass, and the interactions appeared to result primarily from increased mortality from cannibalistic pecking with increased age.
  • (19) In the swinging 1960s, Peck's sober style seemed a little out of place, though he appeared in a couple of flashy Hitchcockian thrillers, Mirage (1965) and Arabesque (1966), and adapted to the new Hollywood as best he could, looking rather bothered as the father of a demon in The Omen (1976).
  • (20) Pigeons' pecks were conditioned with food reinforcement.