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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iterate

/ˈɪtəɹeɪt/ verb, noun, adjective

Forms iterates iterating iterated

  1. verb (computing) To perform or repeat an action on each item in a set. “The max() function iterates through the data to find the highest value.”
  2. verb (computing, mathematics) To perform or repeat an action on the results of each such prior action. “In mathematics, an iterated function is a function which is composed with itself, possibly ad infinitum, in a process called iteration.”
  3. verb (transitive, archaic) To utter or do a second time or many times; to repeat. “to iterate advice”
  4. verb (design, ambitransitive) To repeat an activity, making incremental changes each time.
  5. noun (mathematics) An n-fold self-composition of a function.
  6. noun (mathematics) The image of a certain value under such a function. “f²(x₀) is the second iterate of x₀ under f.”
  7. adjective Said or done again; repeated.
  8. adjective (as a participle) Iterated.

Synonyms

reiterate repeat reprise see Thesaurus:repeated ingeminate restate retell

Etymology

The adjective is first attested in 1471, in Middle English, the verb in 1533, the noun in 1941; partly inherited from Middle English iterat(e) (adjective), partly borrowed from Latin iterātus, perfect passive participle of iterō (“to do something for a second time, repeat”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)) , from iterum (“again”) + -ō. Sporadical participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Uttered or done again; repeated. [Obs.] Bp. Gardiner.
  2. verb To utter or do a second time or many times; to repeat; as, to iterate advice.
  3. adverb By way of iteration.

Etymology [L. iteratus, p. p. of iterare to repeat, fr. iterum again, prop. a compar. from the stem of is he, that; cf. L. ita so, item likewise, also, Skr. itara other, iti thus. Cf. Identity, Item.]

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