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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assimilate

/əˈsɪm.ɪ.leɪt/ verb, adjective, noun

Forms assimilates assimilating assimilated

  1. verb (transitive) To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion. “Food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue.”
  2. verb (transitive) To incorporate or absorb (knowledge) into the mind. “The teacher paused in her lecture to allow the students to assimilate what she had said.”
  3. verb (transitive) To absorb (a person or people) into a community or culture. “The aliens in the science-fiction film wanted to assimilate human beings into their own race.”
  4. verb (transitive, rare, used with "to" or "with") To liken, compare to something similar.
  5. verb (transitive) To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.
  6. verb (intransitive) To become similar.
  7. verb (intransitive) To be incorporated or absorbed into something.
  8. verb (ambitransitive, phonology) To undergo phonetic assimilation.
  9. adjective (as a participle) Assimilated.
  10. adjective Similar, like, the same as.
  11. noun Something that is or has been assimilated.
  12. noun (obsolete) Something that is like, similar to another.

Synonyms

process integrate absorb ingest take in imbibe

Antonyms

dissimilate

Etymology

First attested in the early 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English; Middle English assimilaten (“to become similar; to make like”), from assimilat(e) (“assimilated”, also used as the past participal of assimilaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Late Latin assimilātus, variant of Latin assimulātus (“made similar, imitated”), perfect passive participle of assimulō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ad + simulō (“to imitate, copy”), from similis (“like, similar”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“together, one”). Doublet of assemble.

First attested in the early 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English; from Middle English assimilat(e) (“made like”, used as the participle of assimilaten), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more; the noun was derived from the participle through substantivization, see -ate (noun-forming suffix). Participial usage up until Early Modern English.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between. Sir M. Hale.
  2. verb To liken; to compa [R.]
  3. verb To become similar or like something else. [R.]
  4. verb To change and appropriate nourishment so as to make it a part of the substance of the assimilating body.

Etymology [L. assimilatus, p. p. of assimilare; ad + similare to make like, similis like. See Similar, Assemble, Assimilate.]

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