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

collective

/kəˈlɛktɪv/ adjective, noun

Forms collectives

  1. adjective Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body. “the collective body of a nation”
  2. adjective Tending to collect; forming a collection.
  3. adjective Having plurality of origin or authority.
  4. adjective (grammar) Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form.
  5. adjective (obsolete) Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring.
  6. noun A farm owned by a collection of people.
  7. noun (especially in communist countries) One of more farms managed and owned, through the state, by the community.
  8. noun (grammar) A collective noun or name.
  9. noun (by extension) A group dedicated to a particular cause or interest.
  10. noun The flight control used to control a helicopter's ascent or descent.

Synonyms

congregated aggregated corporate

Antonyms

distributive

Etymology

From Middle French collectif, from Latin collēctīvus, from collēctus, past participle of colligō (“to collect”), from com- (“together”) + legō (“to gather”). Compare French collectif. Doublet of colectivo.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the collective body of a nation.
  2. adjective Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring. [Obs.] "Critical and collective reason." Sir T. Browne.
  3. noun A collective noun or name.

Etymology [L. collectivus: cf. F. collectif.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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