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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percolate

UK /ˈpɜːkəleɪt/ · US /ˈpɝkəleɪt/ verb, noun

Forms percolates percolating percolated

  1. verb (transitive) To pass a liquid through a porous substance; to filter.
  2. verb (intransitive) To drain or seep through a porous substance. “Water percolates through sand.”
  3. verb (transitive) To make (coffee) in a percolator. “I'll percolate some coffee.”
  4. verb (intransitive) (of coffee) to be prepared by percolation; (of a coffee pot) to brew coffee in this way.
  5. verb (intransitive, figuratively) To spread slowly or gradually; to slowly become noticed or realised. “Reports on the pitiful state of many prisons have finally percolated through to the Home Office, which has promised to look into the situation.”
  6. noun (rare) A liquid that has been percolated.

Synonyms

leach sink in permeate filter perk up perk pick up gain vigor

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin percōlātus, perfect passive participle of percōlō (“to filter”), itself, from per (“through”) + cōlō (“to strain”) (from cōlum (“a strainer”), of unknown origin); see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain. Sir M. Hale.
  2. verb To pass through fine interstices; to filter; as, water percolates through porous stone.

Etymology [L. percolatus, p.p. of percolare to percolate; per through + colare to strain.]

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

Sanskrit

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