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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conjugate

UK /ˈkɒn.d͡ʒə.ɡeɪt/ · US /ˈkɑn.d͡ʒə.ɡeɪt/ verb, noun, adjective

Forms conjugates conjugating conjugated

  1. verb (grammar, transitive) To inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses; to list or recite its principal parts. “In English, the verb 'to be' is conjugated as follows: 'I am', 'you are', 'he/she/it is', 'we are', 'you are', 'they are'.”
  2. verb (mathematics) To multiply on the left by one element and on the right by its inverse.
  3. verb (rare) To join together, to unite; to juxtapose.
  4. verb (biology, of bacteria and algae) To temporarily fuse, exchanging or transferring DNA.
  5. noun Any entity formed by joining two or more smaller entities together.
  6. noun (algebra, of a complex number) A complex conjugate.
  7. noun (algebra) More generally, any of a set of irrational or complex numbers that are zeros of the same polynomial with integral coefficients.
  8. noun (algebra, field theory, of an element of an extension field) Given a field extension L / K and an element α ∈ L, any other element β ∈ L that is another root of the minimal polynomial of α over K.
  9. noun (anatomy, obstetrics) A type of pelvic measurement.
  10. noun (mathematics) An explementary angle.
  11. noun (grammar) A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in meaning.
  12. noun (immunology) A weak and a strong antigen covalently linked together
  13. adjective United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.
  14. adjective (botany) In single pairs; coupled.
  15. adjective (chemistry) Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one.
  16. adjective (grammar) Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; said of words.
  17. adjective (mathematics) Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; said of quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc.

Synonyms

paired conjugate solution conjugated coupled

Antonyms

dysconjugate

Etymology

The adjective (as “combined, united”) and noun are first attested in 1471, in Middle English, the verb in 1530; partly from Middle English conjugat(e) (“combined, united”), partly directly borrowed from New Latin coniugātus, the perfect passive participle of Latin coniugō (“to yoke together, combine; (New Latin) to conjugate, decline, inflect”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)), from con- (“with”) + iugō (“to join”). In Classical Latin, the word for conjugate (grammar) was dēclīnō, coniugō is a later back-formation from post-classical coniugātiō (“conjugation, declension”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.
  2. adjective In single pairs; coupled.
  3. noun A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in signification.
  4. noun A complex radical supposed to act the part of a single radical.

Etymology [L. conjugatus, p.p. or conjugare to unite; con- + jugare to join, yoke, marry, jugum yoke; akin to jungere to join. See Join.]

Etymology [L. conjugatum a combining, etymological relationship.]

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