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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organize

UK /ˈɔːɡənaɪz/ · US /ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/ verb

Also a form of organise

Forms organizes organizing organized organizest organizedst organizeth organise

  1. verb (transitive) To arrange in working order.
  2. verb (transitive) To constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize.
  3. verb (transitive, chiefly used in the past participle) To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life “an organized being”
  4. verb (transitive, music) To sing in parts. “to organize an anthem”
  5. verb (transitive, intransitive) To band together into a group or union that can bargain and act collectively; to unionize. “the workers decided to organize; their next task was to organize the workers at the steel mill”

Synonyms

marshal adapt adjust apportion arrange assort bunch categorize classify clean codify collocate compile coordinate disambiguate disembroil disentangle fashion fit fix form organise mastermind engineer direct orchestrate prepare devise get up machinate

Antonyms

confuse disarrange disorganize disperse embroil feeze messy mix scatter upset

Etymology

From Middle English organizen, organysen, partly from Middle French organiser and partly from its etymon, Medieval Latin organizō, from Latin organum (“organ”). By surface analysis, organ + -ize.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter; --in this sense used chiefly in the past participle.
  2. verb To arrange or constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize; to get into working order; --applied to products of the human intellect, or to human institutions and undertakings, as a science, a government, an army, a war, etc. This original and supreme will organizes the government. Cranch.

Etymology [Cf. F. organiser, Gr. Organ.]

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