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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license

/ˈlaɪ.səns/ noun, verb

Forms licenses licensing licensed licence

  1. noun A legal document giving official permission to do something; a permit.
  2. noun The legal terms under which a person is allowed to use a product, especially software.
  3. noun Freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behaviour or speech).
  4. noun Excessive freedom; lack of due restraint.
  5. verb To authorize officially. “I am licensed to practice law in this state.”
  6. verb To give formal authorization to use. “It was decided to license Wikipedia under the GFDL.”
  7. verb To acquire authorization to use, usually in exchange for compensation. “The filmmakers licensed several iconic 80's songs for the soundtrack.”
  8. verb (transitive) To give permission or freedom to; accept.
  9. verb (linguistics, transitive) To permit (as grammatically correct). “No English adverbs have mandatory complements, and most don't even license optional ones.”

Synonyms

licence permit permission certify

Etymology

From Middle English licence, licens, lisence, lissens, licance, from Old French licence, from Latin licentia (“license”), from licens, present participle of licere (“to be allowed, be allowable”); compare linquere, Ancient Greek λείπω (leípō, “leave”).

From Middle English licencen, licensen, lisensen, licent, from Old French licencer, licencier, licenciier, licenser, from Medieval Latin licentiō (cf. English licentiate).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Authority or liberty given to do or forbear any act; especially, a formal permission from the proper authorities to perform certain acts or to carry on a certain business, which without such permission would be illegal; a grant of permission; as, a license to preach, to practice medicine, to sell gunpowder or intoxicating liquors.
  2. noun The document granting such permission. Addison.
  3. verb To permit or authorize by license; to give license to; as, to license a man to preach. Milton. Shak.

Etymology [F. licence, L. licentia, fr. licere to be permitted, prob. orig., to be left free to one; akin to linquere to leave. See Loan, and cf. Illicit, Leisure.]

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

Sanskrit

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