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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equalize

UK /ˈiːkwəlaɪz/ · US /ˈikwəˌlaɪz/ verb

Forms equalizes equalizing equalized equalise æqualize

  1. verb (transitive) To make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree. “to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes”
  2. verb (obsolete, transitive) To be equal to; to equal, to rival.
  3. verb (intransitive, sports) To make the scoreline equal by scoring points.
  4. verb (underwater diving) To clear the ears to balance the pressure in the middle ear with the outside pressure by letting air enter along the Eustachian tubes.
  5. verb (category theory, of a morphism) to precompose with each of a parallel pair of morphisms so as to yield the same composite morphism.
  6. verb (signal processing) To adjust the balance between frequency components within an electronic signal.

Synonyms

even out equalise get even equal match equate

Etymology

Cf. F. égaliser.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes.
  2. verb To pronounce equal; to compare as equal.

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

Sanskrit

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