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GEMINATE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A doubled or long consonant

Example:

the 'n' in 'thinness' is a geminate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("geminate" is a kind of...):

consonant (a speech sound that is not a vowel)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Arrange or combine in pairs

Example:

The consonants are geminated in these words

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Arrange in pairs

Example:

Pair these numbers

Synonyms:

geminate; pair

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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 3

Meaning:

Occur in pairs

Synonyms:

geminate; pair

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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 4

Meaning:

Form by reduplication

Example:

The morpheme can be reduplicated to emphasize the meaning of the word

Synonyms:

geminate; reduplicate

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

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

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