Definition of geminated Geminated
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What does geminated mean?
Part of speech
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NounPlural: geminates |
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| geminate - a doubled or long consonant; "the `n' in `thinness' is a geminate" | ||
Verb |
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| geminate - arrange or combine in pairs; "The consonants are geminated in these words" | ||
| duplicate, double make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick" | ||
| geminate - occur in pairs | ||
| pair | ||
| occur come to one's mind; suggest itself; "It occurred to me that we should hire another secretary"; "A great idea then came to her" | ||
| geminate - arrange in pairs; "Pair these numbers" | ||
| pair | ||
| arrange, set up arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events; "arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times" | ||
| geminate - form by reduplication; "The consonant reduplicates after a short vowel"; "The morpheme can be reduplicated to emphasize the meaning of the word" | ||
| reduplicate | ||
| reduplicate, replicate, duplicate, double, repeat form by reduplication; "The consonant reduplicates after a short vowel"; "The morpheme can be reduplicated to emphasize the meaning of the word" | ||
| linguistics the humanistic study of language and literature | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- geminate (a.)
In pairs or twains; two together; binate; twin; as, geminate flowers. - geminate (v. t.)
To double.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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geminate
jem′in-āt, adj. (bot.) in pairs.—v.t. (rare) to double.—n. Geminā′tion, a doubling: repetition of a word to add emphasis: (philol.) the doubling of a consonant originally single. [L. gemināre, ātum—geminus, twin.]
Part of speech
🔤- geminate, verb, present, 1st person singular of geminate (infinitive).
- geminate, verb (infinitive).
