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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elongate

UK /ɪˈlɒŋ.ɡeɪt/ · US /əˈlɔŋˌɡeɪt/ adjective, verb

Forms elongates elongating elongated elongatest elongatedst elongateth

  1. adjective Elongated, extended, lengthened; (especially biology) having a long and slender form. “Painted turtles lay oval, elongate eggs.”
  2. verb To make (something) long or longer, for example, by pulling or stretching; to make (something) elongated; to extend, to lengthen.
  3. verb (obsolete) Followed by from: to move to or place (something) at a distance from another thing; to remove.
  4. verb To become long or longer, for example, by being pulled or stretched; to become elongated.
  5. verb (botany) Of a plant part: to grow long; also, to have a long and slender or tapering form.
  6. verb (obsolete) Followed by from: to be at a distance, or move away, from a thing; to depart; (specifically, astronomy) of a planet, star, or other astronomical object: to appear to recede from the sun or a fixed point in the celestial sphere.

Synonyms

draw out prolong stretch enlengthen extend lengthen produce protract linear elongated

Antonyms

abbreviate abridge chop down chop off cut short compress condense curt curtail lop off make shorter pare

Etymology

From Late Middle English elongat, elongate (“kept away; different or remote in nature”, adjective), borrowed from Late Latin ēlongātus (“having been stretched out, elongated; prolonged, protracted; having been kept aloof, removed”) + Middle English -at (suffix forming participles). Ēlongātus is the perfect passive participle of ēlongō (“to prolong, protract; to keep aloof, remove; to depart, withdraw”), from Latin ē- (a variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’)) + longus (“extended, long, prolonged; far”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos (“long”, adjective)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs). Doublet of eloign.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To lengthen; to extend; to stretch; as, to elongate a line.
  2. verb To remove further off. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
  3. verb To depart to, or be at, a distance; esp., to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit. [R.]
  4. adjective Drawn out at length; elongated; as, an elongate leaf. "An elongate form." Earle.

Etymology [LL. elongatus, p. p. of elongare to remove, to prolong; e + L. longus long. See Long, a., and cf. Eloign.]

Etymology [LL. elongatus.]

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