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geminate

[ US /ˈdʒɛməˌneɪt, ˈdʒɛmənət/ ]
NOUN
  1. a doubled or long consonant
    the `n' in `thinness' is a geminate
VERB
  1. form by reduplication
    The consonant reduplicates after a short vowel
    The morpheme can be reduplicated to emphasize the meaning of the word
  2. occur in pairs
  3. arrange or combine in pairs
    The consonants are geminated in these words
  4. arrange in pairs
    Pair these numbers

How To Use geminate In A Sentence

  • Oh, these professionals!" ingeminated Captain Pond again, eyeing the breach and the dismantled married quarters. Merry-Garden and Other Stories
  • Some geminates, however, are clearly more morphologically distinct than others are.
  • Don't take it literally as a geminate consonant, as might be the interpretation of those familiar with IPA notation. Markedness and the uvular proposal in PIE
  • Our primary goals are to characterize patterns of morphological variation within and between geminate arks and evaluate the utility of shell shape for distinguishing between recent geminate species.
  • Both Anand and Mili in their own way ingeminate the same message - death or the knowledge of it doesn't necessarily have to mean the end.
  • High spiritual truth has been ingeminated in all parts of the world where the ancient vehicle of truth-dissemination The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
  • DI; the capitals denote values of syllabic signs were ignored in favour of geminate versus simple: word-initial TI or DI to write the same word, but contrasting AT-TI or AD-DI vs. Bronze Age Areal influence in Anatolia and Etruscan
  • But we can't actually tell, it's rather hard to write geminates at the beginning of a word with the writing system the had. Bronze Age Areal influence in Anatolia and Etruscan
  • Male spikelets are geminate, one sessile and one pedicelled, 2-flowered or imperfect, and with four glumes, which are subequal. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • For many words, however, the most common misspelling seems to be to violate conservation of geminates, and write the word with no doubled consonants at all.
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