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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

paraphrase

/ˈpæɹəfɹeɪz/ noun, verb

Forms paraphrases paraphrasing paraphrased

  1. noun A restatement of a text in different words, often to clarify meaning or from memory rather than verbatim. “close paraphrase”
  2. noun (Scotland) One of a certain number of Scripture passages turned into verse for use in the service of praise.
  3. verb (ambitransitive) To restate something as, or to compose a paraphrase. To repeat a written or spoken phrase/quote using different words, often in a simpler and shorter form, or sometimes in a humorous context. “She asked the student to paraphrase the passage.”

Synonyms

paraphrasis rephrase reword

Etymology

From Middle French paraphrase, from Latin paraphrasis, from Ancient Greek παράφρασις (paráphrasis), equivalent to para- + phrase. Doublet of paraphrasis.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A restatement of a text, passage, or work, expressing the meaning of the original in another form, generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition; a setting forth the signification of a text in other and ampler terms; a free translation or rendering; --opposed to metaphrase.
  2. verb To express, interpret, or translate with latitude; to give the meaning of a passage in other language.
  3. verb To make a paraphrase.

Etymology [L. paraphrasis, Gr. paraphrase. See Para-, and Phrase.]

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

Sanskrit

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