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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conglomerate

UK /kənˈɡlɒm.(ə.)ɹɪt/ · US /kənˈɡlɑ.mɚ.ət/ noun, adjective, verb

Forms conglomerates conglomerating conglomerated

  1. noun A cluster of heterogeneous things.
  2. noun (business) A corporation formed by the combination of several smaller corporations whose activities are unrelated to the corporation's primary activity.
  3. noun (geology) A rock consisting of gravel or pebbles embedded in a matrix.
  4. adjective Clustered together into a mass. “conglomerate flowers”
  5. adjective (geology) Composed of fragments of rock, pebbles, or stones cemented together.
  6. adjective Made up of heterogeneous elements; composite.
  7. verb (transitive) To combine together into a larger mass.
  8. verb (transitive, business) To combine together into a larger corporation.

Synonyms

pudding stone empire accumulate cumulate pile up gather amass

Etymology

First attested in the second part of the 16ᵗʰ century; from Latin conglomerātus, perfect passive participle of conglomerō (“to pile into a heap, to roll together”) (see -ate (Etymology 1, 2 and 3)), from con- (prefix indicating a being or bringing together of several objects) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, by, near, with”)) + glomerāre (from glomerō (“to pile into a heap, to make into a ball, glomerate”), from glomus (“ball of thread; ball-shaped mass”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to form into a ball; ball”)).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated; as, conglomerate rays of light.
  2. adjective Closely crowded together; densly clustered; as, conglomerate flowers. Gray.
  3. noun That which is heaped together in a mass or conpacted from various sources; a mass formed of fragments; collection; accumulation.
  4. noun A rock, composed or rounded fragments of stone cemented together by another mineral substance, either calcareous, siliceous, or argillaceous; pudding stone; --opposed to agglomerate. See Breccia.

Etymology [L. conglomeratus, p.p. of conglomerare to roll together; con- + glomerare to wind into a ball. See Glomerate.]

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