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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protract

UK /pɹəˈtɹakt/ · US /pɹoʊˈtɹækt/ verb

Forms protracts protracting protracted

  1. verb To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.
  2. verb To use a protractor.
  3. verb (surveying) To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot.
  4. verb To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer. “to protract a decision or duty”
  5. verb To extend; to protrude. “A cat can protract and retract its claws.”

Synonyms

prolong extend draw out

Etymology

From the past participle stem of Latin prōtrahō. By surface analysis, pro- + tract.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To draw out or lengthen in time or (rarely) in space; to continue; to prolong; as, to protract an argument; to protract a war.
  2. verb To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer; as, to protract a decision or duty. Shak.
  3. noun Tedious continuance or delay. [Obs.] Spenser.

Etymology [L. protractus, p. p. of protrahere to forth, protract; pro forward + trahere to draw. See Portrait, Portray.]

Etymology [L. protractus.]

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

Sanskrit

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