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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commit

/kəˈmɪt/ verb, noun

Forms commits committing committed committest committedst committeth

  1. verb (transitive) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto. “Commit these numbers to memory.”
  2. verb (transitive) To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.
  3. verb (transitive) To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness. “Tony should be committed to a nuthouse!”
  4. verb (transitive) To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault. “to commit murder”
  5. verb (ambitransitive) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.) “to commit oneself to a certain action”
  6. verb (transitive, computing, databases) To make a set of changes permanent.
  7. verb (transitive, programming) To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.
  8. verb (intransitive, obsolete) To enter into a contest; to match; often followed by with.
  9. noun (computing, databases) The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction), making it a permanent change; such a change.
  10. noun (programming) The submission of source code or other material to a source control repository.
  11. noun (informal, sports, chiefly US, otherwise proscribed) A person, especially a high school athlete, who agrees verbally or signs a letter committing to attend a college or university.

Synonyms

5150 section check in check-in perpetrate pull give dedicate consecrate devote institutionalize institutionalise send charge entrust intrust trust confide invest put place practice

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English committen, itself borrowed from Latin committō (“to bring together, join, compare, commit (a wrong), incur, give in charge, etc.”), from com- (“together”) + mittō (“to send”). See mission.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; --used with to, unto.
  2. verb To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
  3. verb To sin; esp., to be incontinent. [Obs.]

Etymology [L. committere, commissum, to connect, commit; com- + mittere to send. See Mission.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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