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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demand

UK /dɪˈmɑːnd/ · US /dɪˈmænd/ noun, verb

Forms demands demanding demanded demandest demandedst demandeth demaund demaunde

  1. noun The desire to purchase goods and services. “Prices usually go up when demand exceeds supply.”
  2. noun (economics) The market force that causes buyers to be both willing and able to buy a good or service, as measured by the amount of that good or service that is currently salable at any given price point; the amount itself. “Supply and demand ebb and flow in a complex interplay.”
  3. noun A forceful claim for something. “Modern society is responding to women's demands for equality.”
  4. noun A requirement. “His job makes many demands on his time.”
  5. noun An urgent request. “She couldn't ignore the newborn baby's demands for attention.”
  6. noun An order.
  7. noun (electricity supply) More precisely peak demand or peak load, a measure of the maximum power load of a utility's customer over a short period of time; the power load integrated over a specified time interval.
  8. verb To request forcefully. “I demand to see the manager.”
  9. verb To claim a right to something. “The bank is demanding the mortgage payment.”
  10. verb To ask forcefully for information. “I demand an immediate explanation.”
  11. verb To require of someone. “This job demands a lot of patience.”
  12. verb (law) To issue a summons to court.

Synonyms

call imposition frain call for insist stipulate requirement need necessitate ask postulate require take involve exact

Antonyms

supply

Etymology

From late Middle English demaunden, from Old French demander, from Latin dēmandō, dēmandāre. Displaced native Old English ġiwian (“to demand”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily; as, to demand a debt; to demand obedience.
  2. verb To inquire authoritatively or earnestly; to ask, esp. in a peremptory manner; to question.
  3. verb To make a demand; to inquire.
  4. noun The act of demanding; an asking with authority; a peremptory urging of a claim; a claiming or challenging as due; requisition; as, the demand of a creditor; a note payable on demand.

Etymology [F. demander, LL. demandare to demand, summon, send word, fr. L. demandare to give in charge, intrust; de- + mandare to commit to one's charge, commission, order, command. Cf. Mandate, Commend.]

Etymology [F. demande, fr. demander. See Demand, v. t.]

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

Sanskrit

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