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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institute

/ˈɪnstɪtjuːt/ noun, verb, adjective

Forms institutes instituting instituted

  1. noun An organization founded to promote a cause “I work in a medical research institute.”
  2. noun An institution of learning; a college, especially for technical subjects
  3. noun The building housing such an institution.
  4. noun (obsolete) The act of instituting; institution.
  5. noun (obsolete) That which is instituted, established, or fixed, such as a law, habit, or custom.
  6. noun (law, Scotland) The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.
  7. verb (transitive) To begin or initiate (something); to found. “He instituted the new policy of having children walk through a metal detector to enter school.”
  8. verb (obsolete, transitive) To train, instruct.
  9. verb To nominate; to appoint.
  10. verb (ecclesiastical, law) To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls.
  11. adjective (obsolete) Established; organized; founded.

Synonyms

establish found plant constitute bring

Etymology

From French institut, from Middle French, from Latin īnstitūtum.

From Middle English, from Latin īnstitūtus, past participle of īnstituō (“to set up, place upon, purpose, begin, institute”), from in (“in, on”) + statuō (“set up, establish”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. Established; organized; founded. [Obs.]
  2. verb To set up; to establish; to ordain; as, to institute laws, rules, etc.
  3. verb To originate and establish; to found; to organize; as, to institute a court, or a society.
  4. noun The act of instituting; institution. [Obs.] "Water sanctified by Christ's institute." Milton.

Etymology [L. institutus, p. p. of instituere to place in, to institute, to instruct; pref. in- in + statuere to cause to stand, to set. See Statute.]

Etymology [L. institutum: cf. F. institut. See Institute, v. t. & a.]

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

Sanskrit

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