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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interpose

UK /ˌɪn.təˈpəʊz/ · US /ˌɪn.tɚˈpoʊz/ verb

Forms interposes interposing interposed

  1. verb (transitive) To insert something (or oneself) between other things. “to interpose a screen between the eye and the light”
  2. verb (transitive) To interrupt a conversation by introducing a different subject or making a comment.
  3. verb (transitive) To offer (one's help or services).
  4. verb (intransitive) To be inserted between parts or things; to come between.
  5. verb (intransitive) To intervene in a dispute, or in a conversation.

Synonyms

insert interrupt interject come in put in throw in inject intervene step in interfere

Etymology

From Middle French interposer, influenced by poser (“to place, put”), from Latin interpōnō, from inter (“between”) + pōnō (“to place, put”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To place between; as, to interpose a screen between the eye and the light.
  2. verb To thrust; to intrude; to between, either for aid or for troubling.
  3. verb To be or come between.
  4. verb To step in between parties at variance; to mediate; as, the prince interposed and made peace. Pope.

Etymology [F. interposer. See Inter-, and Pose, v. t.]

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

Sanskrit

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