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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retrieve

UK /ɹɪˈtɹiːv/ · US /ɹəˈtɹiv/ verb, noun

Forms retrieves retrieving retrieved

  1. verb (transitive) To regain or get back something. “to retrieve one's character or independence; to retrieve a thrown ball”
  2. verb (transitive) To rescue (a creature).
  3. verb (transitive) To salvage something
  4. verb (transitive) To remedy or rectify something.
  5. verb (transitive) To remember or recall something.
  6. verb (transitive) To fetch or carry back something, especially (computing) a file or data record.
  7. verb (transitive) To fetch and bring in game. “The cook doesn't care what's shot, only what's actually retrieved.”
  8. verb (intransitive) To fetch and bring in game systematically. “Dog breeds called 'retrievers' were selected for retrieving.”
  9. noun A retrieval.
  10. noun (sports) The return of a difficult ball.
  11. noun (obsolete) A seeking again; a discovery.
  12. noun (obsolete) The recovery of game once sprung.

Synonyms

recover find regain remember recall call back call up recollect think

Etymology

Recorded in Middle English c. 1410 as retreve (altered to retrive in the 16th century; modern form is from c. 1650), from Middle French retruev-, stem of Old French retrover (“to find again”, modern retrouver), itself from re- (“again”) + trover (“to find”), probably from Vulgar Latin *tropāre (“to compose”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury; as, to retrieve one's character; to retrieve independence.
  2. verb To recall; to bring back.
  3. verb To discover and bring in game that has been killed or wounded; as, a dog naturally inclined to retrieve. Walsh.
  4. noun A seeking again; a discovery. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Etymology [OE. retreven, OF. retrover to find again, recover (il retroevee finds again), F. retrouver; pref. re- re- + OF. trover to find, F. trouver. See Trover.]

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