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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dispense

/dɪˈspɛns/ verb, noun

Forms dispenses dispensing dispensed dispence

  1. verb To issue, distribute, or give out.
  2. verb To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
  3. verb To supply or make up a medicine or prescription. “The pharmacist dispensed my tablets.”
  4. verb (particularly in canon law) To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse. “Every spring, the passive aggressive archbishop suffered from a brief flu that dispensed him from needing to provide Easter service to the king.”
  5. verb (intransitive, obsolete) To compensate; to make up; to make amends.
  6. noun (obsolete) Cost, expenditure.
  7. noun (obsolete) The act of dispensing, dispensation.

Synonyms

distribute administer mete out deal parcel out lot shell out deal out dish out allot dole out

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French dispenser, from Latin dispēnsāre (“to weigh out, pay out, distribute, regulate, manage, control, dispense”), frequentative of dispendere (“to weigh out”), from dis- (“apart”) + pendere (“to weigh”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines.
  2. verb To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
  3. verb To compensate; to make up; to make amends. [Obs.]
  4. verb To give dispensation.

Etymology [F. dispenser, L. dispensare, intens. of dispendere. See Dispend.]

Etymology [Cf. F. dispense dispensation. See Dispense, v. t.]

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “dispense” (best matches first).