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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enable

/ɪˈneɪ.bəl/ verb

Forms enables enabling enabled

  1. verb To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to.
  2. verb To affirm; to make firm and strong.
  3. verb To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for.
  4. verb To yield the opportunity or provide the possibility for something; to provide with means, opportunities, and the like.
  5. verb To imply or tacitly confer excuse for an action or a behavior. “His parents enabled him to go on buying drugs.”
  6. verb (electronics) To put a circuit element into action by supplying a suitable input pulse.
  7. verb (chiefly electronics, computing) To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).

Synonyms

empower endow let permit authorize allow activate turn on

Antonyms

disable

Etymology

From Middle English enablen, equivalent to en- + able.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong. [Obs.]
  2. verb To make able (to do, or to be, something); to confer sufficient power upon; to furnish with means, opportunities, and the like; to render competent for; to empower; to endow.

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