WORD FOR THE DAY: GEMINATE

[Louis Foxwell]

Word For The Day, Friday, May 22, 2015— Word goes here

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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

geminate

hear it pronounced

adjective

1. combined or arranged in pairs; twinned; coupled

Origin: Latin word for "twin," geminus
other forms: geminated

Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.

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[Louis Foxwell]

This should be fun. An easy word, easily misread, with a double meaning. Posting this AM early. Will review your work beginning about 9AM.

Awards galore!

The twins are a complete organism: they speak their own language, "Aeolian" (named after Aeolus, the wind god); their abiding interest is in their private game of Bep -- "the great geminate game" of lying entwined, head to tail, in an echo of their position in the womb.

Salman Rushdie, "The Stuff of Marvels," New York Times, October 4, 1981

[NetAddicted]

Why is the word Geminii used for astrological twins?

[Michael.SF.]

Upon seeing yet another failed planting of flowers, Jesse was heard to exclaim: “I musn’t be irate, but my flowers just don’t geminate.”

[where's_the_Outrage?]

While in a Berlin restaurant ordering I pointed saying "I would have the same order that germinate."

[SoothingDave]

You didn’t ping anyone.

[Cowman]

Geminate: when an emerald begins to sprout

[left that other site]

Although the geminate twins spoke Aeolean,
One was genetically finer
He was born innately major,
The other was a natural minor.

[rarestia]

Huma and Hillary: conjoined, geminate socialists.

[Louis Foxwell]

Because they are astronomical twins. Good catch.

honorable mention

[Louis Foxwell]

Lilttle glitshes follow me everywhere I go. Some of you are so on the ball you do not need aping. Thanks for playing.
LF

[Louis Foxwell]

Nice try. Wrong word. Gotcha.

SPECIAL AWARD ist pl pig

[MrB]

Well, I for one, do not need aping.

We planted some cucumber seeds the other day,
and we're waiting for them to geminate.

[Louis Foxwell]

Yet another lipstick award.

Gotcha too.

[Louis Foxwell]

Thank you Dave. Not only did I not ping I did not notice you did ping the list so now everyone has a geminate post.

[Louis Foxwell]

Absolutely correct. Also true of rubies. But not diamonds. They are too hard to sprout.

honorable mention

[tacticalogic]

Looks like you’re geminating the pigs with the “gotchas”.

[Louis Foxwell]

OOOH. Your brilliance is showing. Must be a celestial body.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Barack and Michelle seem so geminate
One is masculine, one is effeminate
Since I wasn’t there
(And I really don’t care)
Who does what and with which to inseminate

[left that other site]

It’s all Relative! (LOL!)

[left that other site]

Oh My......LOL!