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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rotate

UK /ɹəʊˈteɪt/ · US /ˈɹoʊ.teɪt/ verb, adjective

Forms rotates rotating rotated rotatest rotatedst rotateth

  1. verb (intransitive) To spin, turn, or revolve. “He rotated in his chair to face me.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To advance through a sequence; to take turns. “The nurses' shifts rotate each week.”
  3. verb (intransitive, of aircraft) To lift the nose during takeoff, just prior to liftoff. “The aircraft rotates at sixty knots.”
  4. verb (transitive) To spin, turn, or revolve something. “Rotate the dial to the left.”
  5. verb (transitive) To advance something through a sequence; to allocate or deploy in turns.
  6. verb (transitive) To replace older materials or to place older materials in front of newer ones so that older ones get used first. “The supermarket rotates the stock daily so that old foods don't sit around.”
  7. verb (transitive) To grow or plant (crops) in a certain order.
  8. adjective Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped. “a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla”

Synonyms

revolve circumvolve go around turn out splay spread out

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rotātus, perfect passive participle of rotō (“revolve”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from rota (“wheel”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped; as, a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla, i.e., a monopetalous corolla with a flattish border, and no tube or a very short one.
  2. verb To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve.
  3. verb To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office.
  4. verb To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle.

Etymology [L. rotatus, p.p. of rotare to turn round like a wheel, fr. rota wheel. See Rotary, and cf. Roue.]

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

Sanskrit

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