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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“Requests” is a form of

request

/ɹɪˈkwɛst/ verb, noun

Forms requests requesting requested requestest requestedst requesteth requeste

  1. verb (transitive or with a subjunctive clause) To ask for (something). “The corporal requested reinforcements.”
  2. verb (transitive) To ask (somebody) to do something. “She called me into her office and requested me to sit down.”
  3. noun Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence).
  4. noun A formal message requesting something.
  5. noun Condition of being sought after.
  6. noun (networking) A message sent over a network to a server. “The server returned a 404 error to the HTTP request.”
  7. noun (obsolete) That which is asked for or requested.

Synonyms

ask bespeak call for desire asking beseech prayer wish petition postulation demand quest

Etymology

From Middle English request, from Old French requeste (French requête), from Vulgar Latin *requaesita, from Latin requīsīta, feminine of requīsītus (“requested, demanded”), past participle of requīrō (“require, ask”), composed of re- + quaerō (“to seek, look for”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Italic *kʷaizeō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₂- (“to acquire”). Compare to French requérir.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty.
  2. noun That which is asked for or requested. "He gave them their request." Ps. cvi. 15.
  3. verb To ask for (something); to express desire ffor; to solicit; as, to request his presence, or a favor.
  4. verb To address with a request; to ask. I request you To give my poor host freedom. Shak.

Etymology [OE. requeste, OF. requeste, F. requ, LL. requesta, for requisita, fr. L. requirere, requisitum, to seek again, ask for. See Require, and cf. Quest.]

Etymology [Cf. OF. requester, F. requêter.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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