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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remand

UK /ɹɪˈmɑːnd/ · US /ɹəˈmænd/ noun, verb

Forms remands remanding remanded

  1. noun The act of sending an accused person back into custody whilst awaiting trial.
  2. noun The act of an appellate court sending a matter back to a lower court for review or disposal.
  3. verb (transitive, law) To send a prisoner back to custody.
  4. verb (transitive, law) To send a case back to a lower court for further consideration.
  5. verb (transitive, obsolete) To send back.

Synonyms

remit send back imprison incarcerate lag immure put behind bars jail jug gaol put away

Etymology

From Middle English remaunden (“to send back”), from Middle French remander (“to send back”), from Late Latin remandare (“to send backward”), from Latin remandare (“to order”). Compare countermand.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To recommit; to send back.
  2. noun The act of remanding; the order for recommitment.

Etymology [F. remander to send word again, L. remandare; pref. re- re- + mandare to commit, order, send word. See Mandate.]

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