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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sequester

UK /sɪˈkwɛs.tə/ · US /sɪˈkwɛs.tɚ/ verb, noun

Forms sequesters sequestering sequestered

  1. verb To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw. “The jury was sequestered from the press by the judge's order.”
  2. verb To separate in order to store. “The coal burning plant was ordered to sequester its CO₂ emissions.”
  3. verb To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
  4. verb (chemistry) To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound.
  5. verb (law) To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.
  6. verb To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
  7. verb (transitive, US, politics, law) To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget. “The Budget Control Act of 2011 sequestered 1.2 trillion dollars over 10 years on January 2, 2013.”
  8. verb (international law) To seize and hold enemy property.
  9. noun sequestration; separation
  10. noun (law) A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a referee
  11. noun (medicine) A sequestrum.

Synonyms

allocate appropriate shelve assign dedicate detach designate earmark preselect put aside secern secernate separate sepose set apart set aside segregate impound attach confiscate seize seclude sequestrate withdraw keep apart isolate

Etymology

From Middle English sequestren (verb) and sequestre (noun), from Old French sequestrer, from Late Latin sequestrō (“separate, give up for safekeeping”), from Latin sequester (“mediator, depositary”), probably originally meaning "follower", from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“follow”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as property belonging to another, and hold it till the profits have paid the demand for which it is taken, or till the owner has performed the decree of court, or clears himself of contempt; in international law, to confiscate.
  2. verb To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc. It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him. South.
  3. verb To withdraw; to retire. [Obs.]
  4. verb To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.

Etymology [F. séquestrer, L. sequestrare to give up for safe keeping, from sequester a depositary or trustee in whose hands the thing contested was placed until the dispute was settled. Cf. Sequestrate.]

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