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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substitute

/ˈsʌb.stɪ.tʃuːt/ verb, noun

Forms substitutes substituting substituted

  1. verb (transitive) To use in place of something else, with the same function. “I had no shallots so I substituted onion.”
  2. verb (transitive, in the phrase "substitute X for Y") To use X in place of Y. “I had to substitute new parts for the old ones.”
  3. verb (transitive, formerly proscribed, often in the phrase "substitute X with/by Y", sometimes "substitute X for Y") To use Y in place of X; to replace X with Y. “I had to substitute old parts with the new ones.”
  4. verb (transitive, sports) To remove (a player) from the field of play and bring on another in his place. “He was playing poorly and was substituted after twenty minutes”
  5. verb (intransitive) To serve as a replacement (for someone or something).
  6. noun A replacement or stand-in for something that achieves a similar result or purpose.
  7. noun A substitute teacher.
  8. noun (sports) A player who is available to replace another if the need arises, and who may or may not actually do so.
  9. noun (historical) One who enlists for military service in the place of a conscript.

Synonyms

exchange swap substituend surrogate reserve fill-in ghost proxy replacement stand-in second-stringer relief reliever backup backup man replace interchange sub stand in fill in deputize deputise step in utility alternate alternative ersatz

Antonyms

substituend substituendum

Etymology

From Middle English substituten, from Latin substitutus, past participle of substituō, from sub- (“under; beneath”) + statuō (“to put up; establish”). Displaced native Old English spala (“a substitute”) and spelian (“to substitute”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, is substituted or put in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu of something else; specifically (Mil.),
  2. noun a person who enlists for military service in the place of a conscript or drafted man. Hast thou not made me here thy substitute Milton.
  3. verb To put in the place of another person or thing; to exchange.

Etymology [L. substitutus, p.p. of substituere to put under, put in the place of; sub under + statuere to put, place: cf. F. substitut. See Statute.]

Etymology [See Substitute, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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