osmose
Americanverb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
noun
verb
noun
Etymology
Origin of osmose
First recorded in 1850–55; back formation from osmosis
Example Sentences
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“Verse-jumpers” can use earpieces to puppet the bodies of their alternate selves, and they can osmose skills from counterparts in other worlds by performing pivotal actions that set their lives on different paths.
From The Verge • Mar. 12, 2022
I began to osmose from a neurotic cook with a confusing repertory of ethnic dishes to a relaxed one specializing in faintly Southern food.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 6, 2006
It will not be possible to blow through these twigs, but the red water will rise through them by osmose, and in a few hours will appear at the upper ends.
From The First Book of Farming by Goodrich, Charles Landon
He also swept away the arbitrary distinctions made by previous experimenters, showed that this whole class of phenomena are essentially similar, and called this manifestation of power simply "osmose."
From Scientific Culture, and Other Essays Second Edition; with Additions by Cooke, Josiah Parsons
The moisture gets into the root hairs by a process called osmose.
From The First Book of Farming by Goodrich, Charles Landon
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