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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saturate

/ˈsæt͡ʃəˌɹeɪt/ verb, noun, adjective

Forms saturates saturating saturated

  1. verb (transitive) To cause to become completely permeated with, or soaked (especially with a liquid). “Rain saturated their clothes.”
  2. verb (transitive, figurative) To fill thoroughly or to excess. “Modern television is saturated with violence.”
  3. verb (transitive, chemistry) To satisfy the affinity of; to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold. “One can saturate phosphorus with chlorine.”
  4. verb (transitive, optics) To render pure, or of a colour free from white light.
  5. noun (chemistry) Something saturated, especially a saturated fat.
  6. adjective Saturated, wet, soaked.
  7. adjective (by extension, poetic) Dripping with, covered with, exuding (something) [with with].
  8. adjective (entomology) Very intense. “saturate green”
  9. adjective (obsolete) Satisfied, satiated.
  10. adjective (obsolete) Complete, perfect.
  11. adjective (obsolete, chemistry) Saturated.

Synonyms

drench impregnate soak

Etymology

The adjective is first attested in the second part of the 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English, the verb in 1538, the noun in 1921; inherited from Middle English saturat(e) (“satiated, satisfied”), borrowed from Latin saturātus, perfect passive participle of saturō (“to fill, satisfy, quench”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)), from satur (“full”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked; to fill fully; to sate.
  2. verb To satisfy the affinity of; to cause to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold; as, to saturate phosphorus with chlorine.
  3. Filled to repletion; saturated; soaked.

Etymology [L. saturatus, p.p. of saturate to saturate, fr. satur full of food, sated. See Satire.]

Etymology [L. saturatus, p. p.]

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