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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bate

/beɪt/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms bates bating bated

  1. verb (transitive) To reduce the force of something; to abate.
  2. verb (transitive) To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation
  3. verb (transitive, sometimes figuratively) To cut off, remove, take away.
  4. verb (archaic, transitive) To leave out, except, bar.
  5. verb To waste away.
  6. verb To deprive of.
  7. verb To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
  8. verb To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
  9. noun Strife; contention.
  10. verb (intransitive) To contend or strive with blows or arguments.
  11. verb (intransitive, falconry) Of a falcon: to flap the wings vigorously; to bait.
  12. noun An alkaline lye which neutralizes the effect of the previous application of lime, and makes hides supple in the process of tanning.
  13. noun A vat which contains this liquid.
  14. verb (transitive) To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate.
  15. noun (Ireland) direction, course, track
  16. proper noun A surname transferred from the given name.
  17. proper noun (obsolete) A diminutive of the male given name Bartholomew.
  18. proper noun A town in Comoé province, Burkina Faso.
  19. proper noun A village in Nova Gorica municipality, Slovenia.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English baten (“to abate”), an apheretic form of abaten, from Old French abatre (“to knock down”).

* Noun: From the verb, or directly from the noun debate.
* Verb: From Middle English bate (“contention”), from Old French batre (French battre), from Latin battere.

Borrowed from Swedish beta (“maceration, tanning”).

Variant of beat (“rhythm”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Strife; contention. [Obs.] Shak.
  2. verb To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
  3. verb To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
  4. verb To remit or retrench a part; --with of. Abate thy speed, and I will bate of mine. Dryden.

Etymology [Prob. abbrev. from debate.]

Etymology [From abate.]

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