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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illustrate

UK /ˈɪl.jʊˌstɹeɪt/ · US /ˈɪl.əˌstɹeɪt/ verb

Forms illustrates illustrating illustrated

  1. verb (figurative) To clarify something by giving, or serving as, an example or a comparison. “We illustrate our definitions by including quotations or simple examples.”
  2. verb To provide a book or other publication with pictures, diagrams or other explanatory or decorative features. “The economics textbook was illustrated with many graphs.”
  3. verb (obsolete) To shed light upon.
  4. verb (obsolete) To give renown or honour to; to make illustrious.

Synonyms

illuminate alight belight beshine bright enlighten fire illume illumine irradiate light lighten light up luster lustrate shed light on glorify exemplify instance

Etymology

Back-formation from illustration.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To make clear, bright, or luminous.
  2. verb To set in a clear light; to exhibit distinctly or conspicuously.
  3. adjective Illustrated; distinguished; illustrious. [Obs.]

Etymology [L. illustratus, p.p. of illustrare to illustrate, fr. illustris bright. See Illustrious.]

Etymology [L. illustratus, p.p.]

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

Sanskrit

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