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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amalgamate

/əˈmælɡəˌmeɪt/ verb, adjective, noun

Forms amalgamates amalgamating amalgamated

  1. verb (transitive or intransitive) To merge, to combine, to blend, to join. “to amalgamate two races”
  2. verb To make an alloy of a metal and mercury.
  3. verb (transitive, mathematics) To combine (free groups) by identifying respective isomorphic subgroups.
  4. adjective Coalesced; united; combined.
  5. noun The substance resulting from a process of amalgamation.

Synonyms

mix mingle commix unify amalgamated coalesced consolidated fused

Antonyms

separate

Etymology

From Medieval Latin amalgamātus, past participle of amalgamāre, amalgama.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To compound or mix, as quicksilver, with another metal; to unite, combine, or alloy with mercury.
  2. verb To mix, so as to make a uniform compound; to unite or combine; as, to amalgamate two races; to amalgamate one race with another.
  3. verb To unite in an amalgam; to blend with another metal, as quicksilver.
  4. verb To coalesce, as a result of growth; to combine into a uniform whole; to blend; as, two organs or parts amalgamate.

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