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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accumulate

UK /əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt/ · US /əˈkju.mjəˌleɪt/ verb, adjective

Forms accumulates accumulating accumulated

  1. verb (transitive) To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together (either literally or figuratively), often gradually and without active intent. “He wishes to accumulate a sum of money.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To gradually grow or increase in quantity or number. “With her company going bankrupt, her divorce, and a gambling habit, debts started to accumulate so she had to sell her house.”
  3. verb (education, dated) To take a higher degree at the same time with a lower degree, or at a shorter interval than usual.
  4. adjective (poetic, rare) Collected; accumulated.

Synonyms

amass heap hoard store agglomerate build up cumulate heap up mound pile pile up rack up stack stack up upheap aggregate amound collect gather accrue roll up compile conglomerate

Antonyms

decline decumulate lose

Etymology

First attested c. 1487; from Middle English accumylaten, borrowed from Latin accumulātus, perfect passive participle of accumulō (“to amass, pile up”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), formed from ad (“to, towards, at”) + cumulō (“to heap”), from cumulus (“a heap”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix). Cognate with French accumuler.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.
  2. verb To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.
  3. adjective Collected; accumulated. Bacon.

Etymology [L. accumulatus, p. p. of accumulare; ad + cumulare to heap. See Cumulate.]

Etymology [L. accumulatus, p. p. of accumulare.]

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

Sanskrit

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