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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dispose

UK /dɪˈspəʊz/ · US /dɪsˈpoʊz/ verb, noun

Forms disposes disposing disposed

  1. verb (intransitive, with of) To eliminate or to get rid of something. “I dispose of my trash in the garbage can.”
  2. verb To distribute or arrange; to put in place.
  3. verb To deal out; to assign to a use.
  4. verb To incline. “In these uncertain times, I am disposed towards caution.”
  5. verb (obsolete) To bargain; to make terms.
  6. verb (obsolete) To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.
  7. noun (obsolete) The disposal or management of something.
  8. noun (obsolete) Behaviour; disposition.

Synonyms

incline discard fling toss toss out toss away chuck out cast aside throw out cast out throw away cast away put away qualify

Antonyms

indispose disincline

Etymology

Borrowed from French disposer.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent.
  2. verb To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.
  3. verb To bargain; to make terms. [Obs.]
  4. noun Disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control. [Obs.]

Etymology [F. disposer; pref. dis- + poser to place. See Pose.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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