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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discriminate

UK /dɪˈskɹɪm.ɪ.neɪt/ · US /dɪˈskɹɪm.əˌneɪt/ verb, adjective

Forms discriminates discriminating discriminated

  1. verb (intransitive) To make distinctions. “Since he was color blind he was unable to discriminate between the blue and green bottles.”
  2. verb To treat or affect differently, depending on differences in traits. “Low self-esteem can affect both rich and poor people: it doesn't discriminate.”
  3. verb (intransitive, construed with against) To make decisions harmful to (a person or group) based on prejudice. “The law prohibits discriminating against people based on their skin color.”
  4. verb (intransitive, construed with against, uncommon) To infringe upon (a person's rights) in a prejudicial manner.
  5. verb (transitive) To set apart as being different; to mark as different; to separate from another by discerning differences; to distinguish.
  6. adjective Having its differences marked; distinguished by certain tokens.

Synonyms

distinguish disfavor differentiate know apart separate single out

Antonyms

favor indiscriminate

Etymology

First attested in 1615; borrowed from Latin discrīminātus, perfect passive participle of discrīminō (“to divide, separate, distinguish”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from discrīmen (“a space between, division, separation, distinction”), from discernō (“to divide, separate, distinguish, discern”). By surface analysis, dis- + criminate.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having the difference marked; distinguished by certain tokens.
  2. verb To set apart as being different; to mark as different; to separate from another by discerning differences; to distinguish.
  3. verb To make a difference or distinction; to distinguish accurately; as, in judging of evidence, we should be careful to discriminate between probability and slight presumption.

Etymology [L. discriminatus, p. p. of discriminare to divide, separate, fr. discrimen division, distinction, decision, fr. discernere. See Discern, and cf. Criminate.]

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

Sanskrit

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