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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crystallize

/ˈkɹɪstəlaɪz/ verb

Forms crystallizes crystallizing crystallized crystalize crystallise crystalise

  1. verb (transitive, chemistry, physics) To make something form into crystals. “I crystallized the copper sulfate by slowly cooling a saturated solution.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To assume a crystalline form. “The copper sulphate crystallized from solution.”
  3. verb (transitive, figurative) To give a definite or precise form to (something). “After some thought, I crystallized my ideas for the paper.”
  4. verb (intransitive, figurative) To take a definite form. “My ideas crystallized overnight.”
  5. verb (transitive) To coat something with crystals, especially with sugar. “We crystallized the fruit by coating in sugar.”

Synonyms

crystallise crystalise crystalize clear clear up shed light on straighten out sort out enlighten illuminate elucidate effloresce

Etymology

From crystal + -ize. The double l reflects the classical stem found in its etyma, Latin crystallus and Ancient Greek κρύσταλλος (krústallos), rather than the simplified spelling of the English base noun. Compare Hellenistic Greek κρυσταλλίζειν (krustallízein, “to shine like crystal”), post‐classical Latin crystallizare (“to change into crystal”), and French cristalliser.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To cause to form crystals, or to assume the crystalline form.
  2. verb To be converted into a crystal; to take on a crystalline form, through the action of crystallogenic or cohesive attraction.

Etymology [Cf. F. cristalliser. See Crystal.]

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