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Huddle vs Kiss - What's the difference?

huddle | kiss |

As a proper noun huddle

is .

As a phrase kiss is

.

huddle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a dense and disorderly crowd
  • (American football) a brief meeting of all the players from one team that are on the field with the purpose of planning the following play.
  • Verb

    (huddl)
  • To crowd together as when distressed or in fear.
  • * 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 4
  • During all these operations the apes who had entered sat huddled near the door watching their chief, while those outside strained and crowded to catch a glimpse of what transpired within.
  • To curl one's legs up to the chest and keep one's arms close to the torso; to crouch; to assume a position similar to that of an embryo in the womb.
  • To get together and discuss.
  • * 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/sports/new-york-city-marathon-will-not-be-held-sunday.html?hp&_r=0]," New York Times (retrieved 2 November 2012):
  • George Hirsch, chairman of the board of Road Runners, said officials huddled all day Friday, hoping to devise an alternate race. They considered replacing the marathon with a race that would comprise the final 10 miles of marathon, starting at the base of the Queensboro 59th Street Bridge on the Manhattan side. But that was not deemed plausible, Mr. Hirsch said.
  • (American football) To form a huddle.
  • To crowd (things) together; to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system.
  • * (John Locke)
  • Our adversary, huddling several suppositions together,makes a medley and confusion.
  • To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; usually with a following preposition or adverb (huddle on'', ''huddle up'', ''huddle together ).
  • * J. H. Newman
  • Huddle up a peace.
  • * (John Dryden)
  • Let him forecast his work with timely care, / Which else is huddled when the skies are fair.
  • * (Jonathan Swift)
  • Now, in all haste, they huddle on / Their hoods, their cloaks, and get them gone.

    kiss

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • (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.
  • *
  • *:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ΒΆ, 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.
  • :
  • *(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.
  • Synonyms

    * to kiss each other (3) * to kiss one another (3) * See also

    Noun

    (es)
  • 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).
  • Derived terms

    * ass kissing * blow a kiss * French kiss * good night kiss * kiss and cry * kiss and make up * kiss ass, kiss-ass * kiss chase * kiss goodbye * kisser * kiss my ass/kiss my arse * kiss of death * kiss off * kiss of life * kissogram * kiss the gunner's daughter * kiss the hem of someone's garment * kiss-up * kiss up * soul kiss * tongue kiss

    See also

    * x * xo * xoxo * xoxoxo * xxx

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