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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contain

/kənˈteɪn/ verb

Forms contains containing contained

  1. verb (transitive) To hold inside. “The brown box contains three stacks of books.”
  2. verb (transitive) To include as a part. “Most of the meals they offer contain meat.”
  3. verb (transitive) To put constraints upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds. “I'm so excited, I can hardly contain myself!”
  4. verb (mathematics, of a set etc., transitive) To have as an element or subset. “A group contains a unique inverse for each of its elements.”
  5. verb (obsolete, intransitive) To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.

Synonyms

enclose inhold comprise embody incorporate control curb repress restrain restrict stifle hold bear carry hold in check moderate take turn back arrest stop hold back

Antonyms

exclude omit release vent

Etymology

From Middle English conteinen, borrowed from Old French contenir, from Latin continēre (“to hold or keep together, comprise, contain”), combined form of con- (“together”) + teneō (“to hold”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.
  2. verb To have capacity for; to be able to hold; to hold; to be equivalent to; as, a bushel contains four pecks.
  3. verb To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.

Etymology [OE. contenen, conteinen, F. contenir, fr. L. continere, - tentum; con- + tenere to hold. See Tenable, and cf. Countenance.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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