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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animate

UK /ˈæn.ɪ.mət/ · US /ˈæn.ə.mət/ adjective, verb

Forms animates animating animated

  1. adjective That lives.
  2. adjective (of people, animals, ghosts, deities) That has (or is believed to have) a spirit (anima) and/or some amount of consciousness and sentience, either being alive or supernaturally seeming alive.
  3. adjective Possessing the quality or ability of motion.
  4. adjective Dynamic, energetic. “She is an engaging and animate speaker.”
  5. adjective (grammar, of a noun or pronoun) having a referent that is considered alive (this generally includes humans, animals and deities, sometimes also plants, spirits, etc.) “Nouns can be singular or plural, and one of two genders, animate or inanimate.”
  6. adjective (grammar) Inflected to agree with an animate noun or pronoun.
  7. verb (transitive) To impart motion or the appearance of motion to. “leaves animated by a stiff breeze”
  8. verb (transitive) To give spirit or vigour to; to stimulate or enliven; to inspirit.

Synonyms

alive living vital above ground alive and kicking alive and well animated extant kicking live lively livesome quick still with us surviving undeceased vitalic dynamic kinetic motile inspire invigorate enliven exalt animize animise liven liven up recreate reanimate

Antonyms

inanimate lifeless asleep at rest blessed cadaverous clay-cold deceased breathless resting cold decomposed

Etymology

From Middle English animat(e), from Latin animātus, perfect passive participle of animō (“to fill with breath, quicken, encourage, animate”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from anima (“soul, spirit, breath”); see anima. The verb derives from the adjective, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.
  2. verb To give powers to, or to heighten the powers or effect of; as, to animate a lyre. Dryden.
  3. adjective Endowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively.

Etymology [L. animatus, p. p. of animare, fr. anima breath, soul; akin to animus soul, mind, Gr. an to breathe, live, Goth. us-anan to expire (us- out), Icel. önd breath, anda to breathe, OHG. ando anger. Cf. Animal.]

Etymology [L. animatus, p. p.]

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

Sanskrit

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