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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conclude

/kənˈkluːd/ verb

Forms concludes concluding concluded

  1. verb (intransitive) To end; to come to an end. “The story concluded with a moral.”
  2. verb (transitive) To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
  3. verb (transitive) To bring about as a result; to effect; to make. “to conclude a bargain”
  4. verb (transitive) To come to a conclusion, to a final decision. “From the evidence, I conclude that this man was murdered.”
  5. verb (obsolete) To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.
  6. verb (often passive voice) To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar. “The defendant is concluded by his own plea.”
  7. verb (obsolete) To shut up; to enclose.
  8. verb (obsolete) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace; to confine.

Synonyms

reason reason out resolve close

Antonyms

begin initiate start commence

Etymology

From Middle English concluden, borrowed from Latin conclūdere (“to shut up, close, end”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To shut up; to inclose. [Obs.]
  2. verb To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace. [Obs.]
  3. verb To come to a termination; to make an end; to close; to end; to terminate.
  4. verb To form a final judgment; to reach a decision.

Etymology [L. concludere, conclusum; con- + claudere to shut. See Close, v. t.]

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

Sanskrit

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