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GEMINATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does geminate mean?
• GEMINATE (noun)
The noun GEMINATE has 1 sense:
1. a doubled or long consonant
Familiarity information: GEMINATE used as a noun is very rare.
• GEMINATE (verb)
The verb GEMINATE has 4 senses:
4. arrange or combine in pairs
Familiarity information: GEMINATE used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A doubled or long consonant
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Context example:
the 'n' in 'thinness' is a geminate
Hypernyms ("geminate" is a kind of...):
consonant (a speech sound that is not a vowel)
Conjugation: |
Past simple: geminated
Past participle: geminated
-ing form: geminating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Form by reduplication
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Synonyms:
geminate; reduplicate
Context example:
The morpheme can be reduplicated to emphasize the meaning of the word
Hypernyms (to "geminate" is one way to...):
double; duplicate; reduplicate; repeat; replicate (make or do or perform again)
Domain category:
linguistics (the scientific study of language)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Occur in pairs
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
geminate; pair
Hypernyms (to "geminate" is one way to...):
occur (to be found to exist)
Verb group:
geminate; pair (arrange in pairs)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 3
Meaning:
Arrange in pairs
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
geminate; pair
Context example:
Pair these numbers
Hypernyms (to "geminate" is one way to...):
arrange; set up (put into a proper or systematic order)
Verb group:
geminate; pair (occur in pairs)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 4
Meaning:
Arrange or combine in pairs
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
The consonants are geminated in these words
Hypernyms (to "geminate" is one way to...):
double; duplicate (increase twofold)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
gemination (the doubling of a word or phrase (as for rhetorical effect))
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