Found 4 hits - Term: geminate, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
geminate \gem"inate\, a. l. geminatus, p. p. of genimare to
double. see gemini. bot.
in pairs or twains; two together; binate; twin; as, geminate
flowers. --gray.
1913 webster
see also:
gemini
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
geminate \gem"inate\, v. t.
to double. r. --b. jonson.
1913 webster
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
geminate
n : a doubled or long consonant; "the `n' in `thinness' is a
geminate"
v 1: form by reduplication; "the consonant reduplicates after a
short vowel"; "the morpheme can be reduplicated to
emphasize the meaning of the word" syn: reduplicate
2: occur in pairs syn: pair
3: arrange in pairs; "pair these numbers" syn: pair
4: arrange or combine in pairs; "the consonants are geminated
in these words"
see also:
reduplicate pair
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
39 moby thesaurus words for "geminate":
janus-like, ambidextrous, bifacial, bifold, biform, bilateral,
binary, binate, biparous, bivalent, conduplicate, copy, disomatous,
ditto, double, double-faced, dual, dupe, duple, duplex, duplicate,
geminated, ingeminate, multiply by two, redouble, reduplicate,
repeat, replicate, reproduce, second, secondary, twin, twinned,
two-faced, two-level, two-ply, two-sided, two-story, twofold
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