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Geminate

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Noun

1. geminate

a doubled or long consonant

Example Sentences:
'the n' in thinness' is a geminate'

Verb

2. geminate, reduplicate

form by reduplication

Example Sentences:
'The consonant reduplicates after a short vowel'
'The morpheme can be reduplicated to emphasize the meaning of the word'

3. geminate, pair

occur in pairs

4. geminate, pair

arrange in pairs

Example Sentences:
'Pair these numbers'

5. geminate

arrange or combine in pairs

Example Sentences:
'The consonants are geminated in these words'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Geminate

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adjective (ˈdʒɛmɪnɪt , -ˌneɪt) also: geminated
1. 
combined in pairs; doubled
a geminate leaf
a geminate consonant
verb (ˈdʒɛmɪˌneɪt )
2. 
to arrange or be arranged in pairs
the 't's in 'fitted' are geminated

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Geminate

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adjective
1. 
growing or combined in pairs; coupled
verb transitiveWord forms: ˈgemiˌnated or ˈgemiˌnating
2. 
to arrange in pairs; double
verb intransitive
3. 
to become doubled or paired

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Geminate

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v. gem·i·nat·ed, gem·i·nat·ing, gem·i·nates
v.tr.
1. To double.
2. To arrange in pairs.
3. Linguistics To make into a geminate.
v.intr.
1. To occur in pairs.
2. Linguistics To become a geminate.
adj. (-nĭt, -nāt)
Forming a pair; doubled.
n. (-nĭt, -nāt)
Linguistics
A long or doubled consonant sound, such as the tt in the Italian word sotto or the nn in the English word thinness.

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