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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rehearse

UK [ɹɪˈhɜːs] · US /ɹɪˈhɝs/ verb

Forms rehearses rehearsing rehearsed

  1. verb (transitive) To repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite. “There’s no need to rehearse the same old argument; we’ve heard it before, and we all agree.”
  2. verb (transitive) To narrate; to relate; to tell; to recount. “The witness rehearsed the events of the night before for the listening detectives.”
  3. verb (ambitransitive) To practise by recitation or repetition in private for experiment and improvement, prior to a public representation, especially in theater. “The main actors spent on average two hours a day rehearsing before the first night.”
  4. verb (transitive, theater) To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal. “The director rehearsed the cast incessantly in the days leading up to opening night, and as a result they were tired and cranky when it arrived.”
  5. verb To contrive and carefully prepare (a story, etc.) to offer consistency. “The Crown argued that the accused had rehearsed her story.”

Synonyms

practise practice

Etymology

From Middle English rehersen, from Anglo-Norman reherser (“to repeat word-for-word”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite. Chaucer.
  2. verb To narrate; to relate; to tell.
  3. verb To recite or repeat something for practice. "There will we rehearse." Shak.

Etymology [OE. rehercen, rehersen, OF. reherser, rehercier, to harrow over again; pref. re- re- + hercier to harrow, fr. herce a harrow, F. herse. See Hearse.]

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

Sanskrit

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