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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migrate

/maɪˈɡɹeɪt/ verb

Forms migrates migrating migrated

  1. verb (intransitive) To relocate periodically from one region to another, usually according to the seasons. “Twice a year the geese migrate — from Florida to Canada and back again.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To change one's geographic pattern of habitation. “Many groups had migrated to western Europe from the plains of eastern Europe.”
  3. verb (intransitive) To change habitations across a border; to move from one country or political region to another. “To escape persecution, they migrated to a neutral country.”
  4. verb (intransitive) To move slowly towards, usually in groups. “Once the hosts started bickering in the kitchens, the guests began to migrate towards the living room.”
  5. verb (intransitive) To move gradually, especially from an intended to an unintended position. “Oil was able to migrate from the accessory gearbox into the magneto housing through the improperly installed gland seals.”
  6. verb (transitive, computing) To move computer code or files from one computer or network to another. “They had finished migrating all of the affected code to the production server by 2:00am, three hours later than expected.”
  7. verb (transitive, marketing) To induce customers to shift purchases from one set of a company's related products to another. “We were hoping to migrate the customers of the "C" series to the "E" series and the "E" customers to the "S" series.”

Synonyms

transmigrate

Etymology

First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin migrātus, perfect passive participle of migrō (“to migrate, change, transport”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To remove from one country or region to another, with a view to residence; to change one's place of residence; to remove; as, the Moors who migrated from Africa into Spain; to migrate to the West.
  2. verb To pass periodically from one region or climate to another for feeding or breeding; --said of certain birds, fishes, and quadrupeds.

Etymology [L. migratus, p. p. of migrare to migrate, transfer.]

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