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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materialize

/məˈtɪɹiəlaɪz/ verb

Forms materializes materializing materialized materialise

  1. verb (transitive) To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
  2. verb (intransitive) To take physical form, to appear seemingly from nowhere.
  3. verb (intransitive) To become real (of a plan, idea, etc.); to come to fruition.
  4. verb (transitive) To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.
  5. verb (transitive, databases) To perform materialization; to save the results of a database query as a temporary table or materialized view.

Synonyms

incorporate happen materialise

Antonyms

dematerialize

Etymology

Cf. F. matérialiser.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To invest wich material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.
  2. verb To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.
  3. verb To appear as a material form; to take substantial shape.

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