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