(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.
Verb
Definition:
(n.) A word; a vocable.
(n.) A word which affirms or predicates something of some person or thing; a part of speech expressing being, action, or the suffering of action.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that labelling the picture with a sentence containing a specific verb substantially increased the likelihood that the specific picture corresponding to that verb would subsequently be falsely recognized.
(2) The focus of both studies was on children in their second year of life learning verbs in various pragmatic contexts.
(3) Last week he argued that properly primed immigrants will "see off the racists" - as if once blacks and Asians could conjugate their verbs properly and learn the date of the Battle of Agincourt, then racists would refrain from attacking them.
(4) (2) The emergence of the distinction between ST and NST verbs is gradual rather than sudden.
(5) An analysis of the types of verbs used in self-thoughts evoked by family versus school probes supported the six predicted differences in verb types derived from our postulate of a more passive self-concept in the family context.
(6) Finally, we discuss whether a mixed model containing both verb-based and class-based mechanisms is required to explain the actionality effects.
(7) These data suggest that the problems agrammatic subjects show with verbs in sentence comprehension, and the general lexical access deficit also recently claimed to be part of the agrammatics' problem, may not extend to the real-time processing of verbs and their arguments.
(8) As predicted, the younger children were better at correcting the nouns than the verbs; the two grammatical forms were corrected equally well by the older children.
(9) A difference between verbs and nouns remained even when level of concreteness was controlled.
(10) Thirdly we investigate his comprehension of semantically and thematically related nouns and verbs.
(11) The study is longitudinal and compares the development of body communication and speech (here: the use of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and pronouns) during the 18-month period of rehabilitation.
(12) In comparison to normal children, they had a shorter MLU and upper bound, and a smaller vocabulary, including fewer verbs.
(13) The verb-based account predicts that children should show a consistent pattern of responses for individual verbs on test and re-test.
(14) The most frequent verbs acquired were the perception verbs see and look and the epistemic verbs think and know.
(15) He omitted 43% of articles, 40% of complementizers, 20% of pronouns, 27% of semantically marked prepositions, 43% of purely grammatic prepositions, and 22% of auxiliary verbs, but his average sentence length was 9.8 words and 64% of his sentences contained embedded clauses.
(16) Exceptions were noted for the normals on the verb class and for the Wernicke's aphasics on the NP and VP linguistic constituents.
(17) In a naturalistic study of 24 children at 1;3 and 1;9, it was found that mothers modelled verbs for their children most often BEFORE the referent action actually occurred.
(18) As with the horrible “This is what a feminist looks like” T-shirt, we are again using the wrong verbs.
(19) The verb phrase (VP) anaphora is a commonly used construction in English in which part of a sentence, including the verb, is replaced or deleted.
(20) Verb learning is clearly a function of observation of real-world contingencies; however, it is argued that such observational information is insufficient to account fully for vocabulary acquisition.