Word: geminate
Category: geminate
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Synonyms: geminate
waste time, dally, dawdle, loiter, linger, take one's time, delay, temporize, stall, procrastinate, pussyfoot around, drag one's feet, dither, hesitate, falter, vacillate, waver, hem and haw, shilly-shally, lollygag, let the grass grow under one's feet, tarry, dillydally, shillyshally, drag one's heels
Translations: geminate
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german
Translations:
paarig
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french
Translations:
doubler, redoublé, redoubler
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russian
Translations:
удваивать, сдвоенный, сдваивать
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czech
Translations:
zdvojit, zdvojený
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polish
Translations:
podwajać, podwójny, parzysty
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greek
Translations:
διπλός, διπλασιάζω
The meaning and "use of": geminate
verb
- double or repeat (a speech sound). - Because gemination is common in Dravidian languages, double consonants in written English are often geminated : ‘sum-mer’ for summer and ‘sil-lee’ for silly.
- consisting of identical adjacent speech sounds, especially consonants; doubled. - Some geminates , however, are clearly more morphologically distinct than others are.