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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propagate

UK /ˈpɹɒpəˌɡeɪt/ · US /ˈpɹɑpəˌɡeɪt/ verb, adjective

Forms propagates propagating propagated

  1. verb (transitive, of animals or plants) To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production.
  2. verb (transitive) To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space. “to propagate sound or light”
  3. verb (transitive) To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to carry from place to place; to disseminate.
  4. verb (obsolete, transitive) To multiply; to increase.
  5. verb (transitive) To generate; to produce.
  6. verb (intransitive) To be propagated; to travel.
  7. verb (biology, intransitive) To produce young; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants.
  8. verb (intransitive, computing) To take effect on all relevant devices in a network. “It takes 24 hours for password changes to propagate throughout the system.”
  9. adjective (obsolete, as a participle and participial adjective) propagated

Synonyms

spread circulate circularize circularise distribute disseminate broadcast diffuse disperse pass around

Etymology

First attested in 1535; from Latin prōpāgātus, perfect passive participle of prōpāgō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Participial usage up until Early Modern English.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; --applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species of fruit tree.
  2. verb To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space; as, to propagate sound or light.
  3. verb To have young or issue; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants; as, rabbits propagate rapidly.

Etymology [L. propagatus, p. p. of propagare to propagate, akin to propages, propago, a layer of a plant, slip, shoot. See Pro-, and cf. Pact, Prop, Prune, v. t.]

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

Sanskrit

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