Career vs Kiss - What's the difference?
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One's calling in life; a person's occupation; one's profession.
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General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part of it.
(archaic) speed
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* 1843 , '', book 3, chapter XIII, ''Democracy
A jouster's path during a joust.
* 1819 :
(obsolete) A short gallop of a horse.
* 1603 , John Florio, trans. Michel de Montaigne, Essyas , I.48:
(falconry) The flight of a hawk.
(obsolete) A racecourse; the ground run over.
* Sir Philip Sidney
To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way.
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(lb) To touch with the lips or press the lips against, usually to express love or affection or passion, or as part of a greeting.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:Hekissed her lips with such a clamorous smack, / That at the parting all the church echoed.
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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.
(lb) To touch lightly or slightly; to come into contact.
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*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:Like fire and powder, / Which as they kiss consume.
* (1809-1892)
*:Rose, rose and clematis, / Trail and twine and clasp and kiss .
(lb) Of two or more people, to touch each other's lips together, usually to express love or affection or passion.
(lb) To mark a cross (X) after one's name on a card, etc.
A touch with the lips, usually to express love or affection, or as a greeting.
An 'X' mark placed at the end of a letter or other type of message.
A type of filled chocolate candy, shaped as if someone had kissed the top. See (w, Hershey's Kisses).
Career is a related term of kiss.
As a noun career
is one's calling in life; a person's occupation; one's profession.As a verb career
is to move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way.As a phrase kiss is
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English
(wikipedia career)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.}}
- Washington's career as a soldier
- when a horse is running in his full career
- It may be admitted that Democracy, in all meanings of the word, is in full career ; irresistible by any Ritter Kauderwalsch or other Son of Adam, as times go.
- These knights, therefore, their aim being thus eluded, rushed from opposite sides betwixt the object of their attack and the Templar, almost running their horses against each other ere they could stop their career .
- It is said of Cæsar that in his youth being mounted upon a horse, and without any bridle, he made him run a full cariere [tr. (carriere)], make a sodaine stop, and with his hands behind his backe performe what ever can be expected of an excellent ready horse.
- to go back again the same career
Verb
(en verb)- The car careered down the road, missed the curve, and went through a hedge.
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