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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distribute

UK /dɪˈstɹɪbjuːt/ · US /dɪˈstɹɪbjut/ verb

Forms distributes distributing distributed distributest distributedst distributeth

  1. verb (transitive) To divide into portions and dispense. “He distributed the bread amongst his followers.”
  2. verb (transitive) To supply to retail outlets. “The agency distributes newspapers to local shops.”
  3. verb (transitive) To deliver or pass out. “A network of children distributes flyers to every house.”
  4. verb (transitive) To scatter or spread. “I raked the soil then distributed grass seed.”
  5. verb (transitive) To apportion (more or less evenly). “The robot's six legs distributed its weight over a wide area.”
  6. verb (transitive) To classify or separate into categories. “The database distributed verbs into transitive and intransitive segments.”
  7. verb (intransitive, mathematics) To be distributive. “Multiplication distributes over addition.”
  8. verb (printing) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.

Synonyms

allot courier disperse categorize dispend parcel out sparble strew sort administer allocate apportion deal deal out dispart dispense divide dole out issue give out mete out lot shell out dish out spread hand out pass out circulate pass around pass on

Antonyms

amass concentrate consolidate gather reassemble

Etymology

From Latin distributus, past participle of distribuere (“to divide, distribute”), from dis- (“apart”) + tribuere (“to give, impart”); see tribute.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.
  2. verb To dispense; to administer; as, to distribute justice. Shak.
  3. verb To make distribution.

Etymology [L. distributus, p. p. of distribuere to divide, distribute; dis- + tribuere to assign, give, allot. See Tribute.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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