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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quote

UK [k(ʰ)wəʊt] · US [kʰwoʊt] noun, verb, particle

Forms quotes quoting quoted

  1. noun A statement attributed to a person; a quotation. “She loved reading quotes of famous people.”
  2. noun A quotation mark.
  3. noun A summary of work to be done with a set price; a quotation. “After going over the hefty quotes, the board decided it was cheaper to have the project executed by its own staff.”
  4. noun A price set and offered (by the potential seller) for a financial security or commodity; a quotation.
  5. verb (transitive) To repeat (the exact words of a person). “The writer quoted the president's speech.”
  6. verb (transitive) To prepare a summary of work to be done and set a price; to estimate. “Can you believe they quoted me $5,000?”
  7. verb (commerce, transitive) To name the current price, notably of a financial security.
  8. verb (intransitive) To indicate verbally or by equivalent means the start of a quotation.
  9. verb (archaic) To observe, to take account of.
  10. particle Used in speech to indicate the start of a quotation. “She told me she was, quote, "too hot for you."”

Synonyms

cite quotation mark inverted comma quotation citation

Antonyms

end quote unquote end of quote

Etymology

From Middle English quoten, coten (“to mark (a book) with chapter numbers or marginal references”), from Old French coter, from Medieval Latin quotāre (“to distinguish by numbers, number chapters”), itself from Latin quotus (“which, what number (in sequence)”), from quot (“how many”) and related to quis (“who”). The sense developed via “to give as a reference, to cite as an authority” to “to copy out exact words” (since 1680); the business sense “to state the price of a commodity” (1866) revives the etymological meaning. The noun, in the sense of “quotation,” is attested from 1885; see also usage note, below.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To cite, as a passage from some author; to name, repeat, or adduce, as a passage from an author or speaker, by way of authority or illustration; as, to quote a passage from Homer.
  2. verb To cite a passage from; to name as the authority for a statement or an opinion; as, to quote Shakespeare.
  3. noun A note upon an author. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

Etymology [OF. quoter, F. coter to letter, number, to quote, LL. quotare to divide into chapters and verses, fr. L. quotus. See Quota.]

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

Sanskrit

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