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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redact

/ɹɪˈdækt/ verb

Forms redacts redacting redacted

  1. verb (usually transitive) To censor, to black out or remove parts of a document while leaving the remainder. “The military will redact the document before releasing it, blacking out sections that are classified.”
  2. verb (law) To black out legally protected sections of text in a document provided to opposing counsel, typically as part of the discovery process.
  3. verb To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.
  4. verb (rare) To draw up or frame a decree, statement, etc.
  5. verb (obsolete) To bring together in one unit; to combine or bring together into one.
  6. verb (obsolete) To gather or organize works or ideas into a unified whole; to collect, order, or write in a written document or to put into a particular written form.
  7. verb (obsolete, rare) To insert or assimilate into a written system or scheme.
  8. verb (obsolete, rare) To bring an area of study within the comprehension capacity of a person.

Synonyms

collate redactor reviser rewriter rewrite man frame cast put couch edit

Etymology

From Old French redacter, from Latin redactus, perfect passive participle of redigō (“drive, lead, collect, reduce”), from re- (“back”) + agō (“put in motion, drive”). Piecewise doublet of react.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.

Etymology [L. redactus, p. p. of redigere; pref. red-, re-, again, back + agere to put in motion, to drive.]

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