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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Occupy

UK /ˈɒkjʊpaɪ/ · US /ˈɑkjəpaɪ/ proper noun, verb

Forms occupies occupying occupied occupiest occupieth

  1. proper noun Synonym of OWS (“"Occupy Wall Street" protest movement”).
  2. verb To fill. “The film occupied three hours of my time.”
  3. verb To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of. “The film occupied me for three hours.”
  4. verb To fill or hold (an official position or role). “I occupy the post of deputy cat catcher.”
  5. verb To hold the attention of. “I occupied her friend while he made his proposal.”
  6. verb To fill space. “The historic mansion occupied two city blocks.”
  7. verb To live or reside in.
  8. verb (military) To have, or to have taken, possession or control of (a territory).
  9. verb (surveying) To place the theodolite or total station at (a point).

Synonyms

OWS employ busy exercise coitize go to bed with sleep with reside lodge in fill concern interest worry invade take use up absorb engross engage

Etymology

From Middle English occupien, occupyen, borrowed from Old French occuper, from Latin occupāre (“to take possession of, seize, occupy, take up, employ”), from ob (“to, on”) + capiō (“to take”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to seize, grab”). Doublet of occupate, now obsolete.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess.
  2. verb To hold, or fill, the dimensions of; to take up the room or space of; to cover or fill; as, the camp occupies five acres of ground. Sir J. Herschel.
  3. verb To hold possession; to be an occupant. "Occupy till I come." Luke xix. 13.
  4. verb To follow business; to traffic.

Etymology [OE. occupien, F. occuper, fr.L. occupare; ob (see Ob-) + a word akin to capere to take. See Capacious.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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