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Geminate
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Geminate
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Geminate has 1 sense
- geminate(n = noun.communication) Array - a doubled or long consonant; "the `n' in `thinness' is a geminate" is a kind of consonant
Verb Geminate has 4 senses
- geminate(v = verb.creation) reduplicate - form by reduplication; "The consonant reduplicates after a short vowel"; "The morpheme can be reduplicated to emphasize the meaning of the word" is one way to double, duplicate, reduplicate, repeat, replicate
- geminate(v = verb.contact) pair - occur in pairs; Array is one way to occur
- geminate(v = verb.contact) pair - arrange in pairs; "Pair these numbers" is one way to arrange, set up
- geminate(v = verb.change) Array - arrange or combine in pairs; "The consonants are geminated in these words" is one way to double, duplicate
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Derived form noun gemination1
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CIDE DICTIONARY
Geminate, a. [L. geminatus, p. p. of genimare to double. See Gemini.].
In pairs or twains; two together; binate; twin; as, geminate flowers. Gray. [1913 Webster]
Geminate, v. t.
To double. B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Geminate, adj. & v.
--adj. combined in pairs.
--v.tr.
1 double, repeat.
2 arrange in pairs.
--adj. combined in pairs.
--v.tr.
1 double, repeat.
2 arrange in pairs.
Derivative
gemination n.
Etymology
L geminatus past part. of geminare f. geminus twin
THESAURUS
Geminate
Janus-like, ambidextrous, bifacial, bifold, biform, bilateral, binary, binate, biparous, bivalent, conduplicate, copy, disomatous, ditto, double, double-faced, dual, dupe, duple, duplex, duplicate, geminated, ingeminate, multiply by two, redouble, reduplicate, repeat, replicate, reproduce, second, secondary, twin, twinned, two-faced, two-level, two-ply, two-sided, two-story, twofoldROGET THESAURUS
Geminate
Duplication
VB double, redouble, duplicate, reduplicate, geminate, repeat, renew.
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