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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multiply

/ˈmʌltɪplaɪ/ verb, noun, adverb, adjective

Forms multiplies multiplying multiplied

  1. verb (transitive) To increase the amount, degree or number of (something).
  2. verb (transitive, arithmetic, with by) To perform multiplication on (a number). “when you multiply 3 by 7, you get 21; he multiplied several numbers”
  3. verb (intransitive) To grow in number.
  4. verb (intransitive) To breed or propagate.
  5. verb (intransitive, arithmetic) To perform multiplication. “He had been multiplying, but it occurred to him he needed to resolve the exponents, first.”
  6. verb (transitive, rare) To be a factor in a multiplication with (another factor).
  7. noun (computer science) An act or instance of multiplying.
  8. adverb In many or multiple ways.
  9. adjective Having more than one ply or layer; multilayered.

Synonyms

manifold breed reproduce procreate

Antonyms

divide singly

Etymology

From Old French multiplier, from Latin multiplicō, from multi (“many”) + plicō (“to fold”).
The noun presumably derives from the verb.

From multiple + -ly.

multi- + ply

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to. Impunity will multiply motives to disobedience. Ames.
  2. verb To add (any given number or quantity) to itself a certain number of times; to find the product of by multiplication; thus 7 multiplied by 8 produces the number 56; to multiply two numbers. See the Note under Multiplication.
  3. verb To become greater in number; to become numerous.
  4. verb To increase in extent and influence; to spread.

Etymology [F. multiplier, L. multiplicare, fr. multiplex manifold. See Multitude, Complex.]

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

Sanskrit

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