Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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adopt

UK /əˈdɒpt/ · US /əˈdɑpt/ verb

Forms adopts adopting adopted adoptest adoptedst adopteth

  1. verb To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child. “A friend of mine recently adopted a Chinese baby girl found on the streets of Beijing.”
  2. verb To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild. “We're going to adopt a Dalmatian.”
  3. verb To contribute towards the upkeep of (a child or animal), in exchange for occasional stories, pictures, etc. “We adopted an elephant at the local zoo.”
  4. verb To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility. “This supermarket chain adopts several families every Yuletide, providing them with money and groceries for the holidays.”
  5. verb To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally. “He adopted a new look in order to fit in with his new workmates.”
  6. verb To select and take or approve. “to adopt the view or policy of another”
  7. verb (chess, slang) To beat an opponent ten times in a row. “The match was not even close; the IM made amateurish blunders and ended up getting adopted.”

Synonyms

espouse embrace follow borrow take over take up assume take on acquire take take in dramatize dramatise sweep up

Etymology

From Middle French adopter, from Latin adoptō; ad + optō (“to choose, desire”), equivalent to ad- + opt.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc. ; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
  2. verb To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted.

Etymology [L. adoptare; ad + optare to choose, desire: cf. F. adopter. See Option.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “adopt”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “adopt” (best matches first).

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