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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construct

UK /ˈkɒn.stɹʌkt/ · US /ˈkɑn.stɹʌkt/ noun, verb

Forms constructs constructing constructed

  1. noun Something constructed from parts. “The artwork was a construct of wire and tubes.”
  2. noun A concept or model. “Bohr's theoretical construct of the atom was soon superseded by quantum mechanics.”
  3. noun (genetics) A segment of nucleic acid, created artificially, for transplantation into a target cell or tissue.
  4. verb (transitive) To build or form (something) by assembling parts. “We constructed the radio from spares.”
  5. verb (transitive, grammar) To build (a sentence, an argument, etc.) by arranging words or ideas. “A sentence may be constructed with a subject, verb and object.”
  6. verb (transitive, geometry) To draw (a geometric figure) by following precise specifications and using geometric tools and techniques. “Construct a circle that touches each vertex of the given triangle.”

Synonyms

concept idea model notion representation something constructed from parts assemble build form make produce put together conception manufacture fabricate reconstruct retrace

Antonyms

destroy disassemble dismantle ruin wreck take apart

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cōnstrūctus, from cōnstruō (“to heap together”), from com- (“together”) + struō (“to heap up, pile”). Doublet of construe.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To put together the constituent parts of (something) in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edlifice.
  2. verb To devise; to invent; to set in order; to arrange; as, to construct a theory of ethics.
  3. adjective Formed by, or relating to, construction, interpretation, or inference. Construct form or state (Heb. Gram.), that of a noun used before another which has the genitive relation to it.

Etymology [L. constructus, p.p. of construere to bring together, to construct; con- + struere to pile up, set in order. See Structure, and cf. Construe.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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