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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compare

UK /kəmˈpɛə/ · US /kəmˈpɛɚ/ verb, noun

Forms compares comparing compared comparest comparedst compareth cp. comp. cmp

  1. verb (transitive) To assess the similarities and differences between two or more things [“to compare X with Y”]. Having made the comparison of X with Y, one might have found it similar to Y or different from Y. “Compare the tiger's coloration with that of the zebra.”
  2. verb (transitive) To declare two things to be similar in some respect [“to compare X to Y”]. “Astronomers have compared comets to dirty snowballs.”
  3. verb (transitive, grammar) To form the three degrees of comparison of (an adjective). “We compare “good” as “good”, “better”, “best”.”
  4. verb (intransitive) To be similar (often used in the negative). “A sapling and a fully-grown oak tree do not compare.”
  5. verb (obsolete) To get; to obtain.
  6. noun (uncountable) Comparison.
  7. noun (countable, programming) An instruction or command that compares two values or states.
  8. noun (uncountable, obsolete) Illustration by comparison; simile.

Synonyms

set against weigh against collate liken comparison equivalence comparability equate

Etymology

From Middle English comparen, from Old French comparer, from Latin comparare (“to prepare, procure”), from compar (“like or equal to another”), from com- + par (“equal”). Displaced native Old English metan (“to compare,” also “to measure”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To examine the character or qualities of, as of two or more persons or things, for the purpose of discovering their resemblances or differences; to bring into comparison; to regard with discriminating attention.
  2. verb To represent as similar, for the purpose of illustration; to liken.
  3. verb To be like or equal; to admit, or be worthy of, comparison; as, his later work does not compare with his earlier.
  4. verb To vie; to assume a likeness or equality.

Etymology [L.comparare, fr. compar like or equal to another; com- + par equal: cf. F. comparer. See Pair, Peer an equal, and cf. Compeer.]

Etymology [L. comparare to prepare, procure; com- + parare. See Prepare, Parade.]

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

Sanskrit

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