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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agglomerate

UK /əˈɡlɒm(ə)ɹət/ · US /əˈɡlɑm(ə)ɹət/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms agglomerates agglomerating agglomerated

  1. adjective collected into a ball, heap, or mass
  2. noun A collection or mass.
  3. noun (geology, volcanology) A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; distinguished from conglomerate.
  4. noun (meteorology) An ice cover of floe formed by the freezing together of various forms of ice.
  5. verb (ambitransitive) To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass.
  6. verb (geography) To extend an urban area by contiguous development, so as to merge the built-up area of one or more central cities or settlements and their suburbs (thus creating an agglomeration).

Synonyms

agglomerated agglomeration collection mass ball ball up bundle up clew conglobate conglobe globe orb wind amass gather gather up merge pile up coalesce pile heap mound cumulation cumulus agglomerative clustered

Etymology

From Latin agglomerātus, past participle of agglomerō (“to wind into a ball”), from ad- (“to”) + glomerō (“to wind into a ball”), from glomus (“a ball”), akin to globus (“a ball”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass.
  2. verb To collect in a mass.
  3. noun A collection or mass.
  4. noun A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; --distinguished from conglomerate.

Etymology [L. agglomeratus, p. p. of agglomerare; ad + glomerare to form into a ball. See Glomerate.]

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