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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regulate

UK /ˈɹɛɡ.jʊ.leɪt/ · US /ˈɹɛɡ.jə.leɪt/ verb

Forms regulates regulating regulated

  1. verb To dictate policy.
  2. verb To control or direct according to rule, principle, or law.
  3. verb To adjust (a mechanism) for accurate and proper functioning. “to regulate a watch, i.e. adjust its rate of running so that it will keep approximately standard time”
  4. verb To put or maintain in order. “to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances”

Synonyms

modulate regularize regularise order govern determine shape mold influence baffle

Antonyms

deregulate

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin regulatus, perfect passive participle of regulō (“to direct, rule, regulate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from regula (“rule”), from regō (“to keep straight, direct, govern, rule”). Compare regle, rail. Displaced native Old English metegian.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws.
  2. verb To put in good order; as, to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances.

Etymology [L. regulatus, p. p. of regulare, fr. regula. See Regular.]

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

Sanskrit

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