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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rebate

/ˈɹiːbeɪt/ noun, verb

Forms rebates rebating rebated rabate

  1. noun A deduction from an amount that is paid; an abatement.
  2. noun The return of part of an amount already paid.
  3. noun (photography) The edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed.
  4. noun A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet.
  5. noun A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
  6. noun An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
  7. noun A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.
  8. verb (transitive) To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment
  9. verb (transitive) To diminish or lessen something
  10. verb To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
  11. verb (transitive) To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something
  12. verb To abate; to withdraw.
  13. verb (intransitive, falconry) Of a falcon: to return to the hand after bating; see bate².

Synonyms

rabbet discount

Etymology

From Old French rabatre < batre. See also abate.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
  2. verb To deduct from; to make a discount from, as interest due, or customs duties. Blount. Rebated cross, a cross which has the extremities of the arms bent back at right angles, as in the fylfot.
  3. verb To abate; to withdraw. [Obs.] Foxe.
  4. noun Diminution.

Etymology [F. rebattre to beat again; pref re- re- + battre to beat, L. batuere to beat, strike. See Abate.]

Etymology [See Rabbet.]

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

Sanskrit

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