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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coalesce

UK /ˌkəʊ.əˈlɛs/ · US /ˌkoʊ.əˈlɛs/ verb

Forms coalesces coalescing coalesced

  1. verb (of separate elements) To join into a single mass or whole. “The droplets coalesced into a puddle.”
  2. verb (of a whole or a unit) To form from different pieces or elements. “The puddle coalesced from the droplets as they ran together.”
  3. verb (engineering) To bond pieces of metal into a continuous whole by liquefying parts of each piece, bringing the liquids into contact, and allowing the combined liquid to solidify.
  4. verb (of separate groups or persons) To merge, to intermingle freely.
  5. verb (databases, SQL) To convert a null value to a defined value.

Synonyms

amalgamate combine join merge unite fuse agglomerate aggregate incorporate cumulate alloy blend interweave consolidate conflate embody integrate mass meld flux mix commingle immix

Antonyms

divide segregate

Etymology

From Latin coalēscō, from co- + alēscō (“grow up”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To grow together; to unite by growth into one body; as, the parts separated by a wound coalesce.
  2. verb To unite in one body or product; to combine into one body or community; as, vapors coalesce.

Etymology [L. coalescere, coalitium; co- + alescere to grow up, incho. fr. alere to nourish. See Aliment, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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