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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inscribe

/ɪnˈskɹaɪb/ verb

Forms inscribes inscribing inscribed

  1. verb (transitive) To write or cut (words) onto (something, especially a hard surface, or a book to be given to another person); to engrave. “I inscribed the book with a message for Kate.”
  2. verb (transitive) To dedicate to someone.
  3. verb (transitive) To enter on a document or list; to enroll.
  4. verb (geometry) To draw a circle, sphere, etc. inside a polygon, polyhedron, etc. and tangent to all its sides.

Synonyms

enwrite inwrite scratch engrave grave enroll enter enrol recruit autograph code encipher cipher cypher encrypt write in code

Antonyms

escribe

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnscrībō, from in- (“upon”) and scrībō (“to write”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To write or engrave; to mark down as something to be read; to imprint.
  2. verb To mark with letters, charakters, or words.

Etymology [L. inscribere. See 1st In-, and Scribe.]

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

Sanskrit

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