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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engage

/ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/ verb, noun, adjective

Forms engages engaging engaged ingage

  1. verb (transitive) To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied.
  2. verb (ambitransitive) To draw into conversation.
  3. verb To attract, to please; (archaic) to fascinate or win over (someone).
  4. verb (transitive) To enter into conflict with (an enemy).
  5. verb (intransitive) To enter into battle.
  6. verb (transitive) To arrange to employ or use (a worker, a space, etc.).
  7. verb (intransitive) To guarantee or promise (to do something).
  8. verb (transitive) To bind through legal or moral obligation (to do something, especially to marry) (usually in passive). “They were engaged last month! They're planning to have the wedding next year.”
  9. noun (historical) Someone serving under a contract of engagement.
  10. adjective Passionately committed to a cause.

Synonyms

immerse engaged prosecute pursue absorb engross occupy hire employ betroth affiance plight wage enlist lease rent charter take mesh lock operate

Antonyms

disengage

Etymology

From Middle English engagen, from Old French engagier (“to pledge, engage”), from Old French en- (“in, under”) + gage (“pledge”), from Frankish *wadi (“pledge”), from Proto-Germanic *wadją (“pledge, guarantee”), from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰ- (“to pledge, redeem a pledge; guarantee, bail”), equivalent to en- + gage. Cognate with Old English weddian (“to engage, covenant, undertake”), German wetten (“to bet, wager”), Icelandic veðja (“to wager”). More at wed.

From French engagé. Doublet of engagee.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or promise. "I to thee engaged a prince's word." Shak.
  2. verb To gain for service; to bring in as associate or aid; to enlist; as, to engage friends to aid in a cause; to engage men for service.
  3. verb To promise or pledge one's self; to enter into an obligation; to become bound; to warrant.
  4. verb To embark in a business; to take a part; to employ or involve one's self; to devote attention and effort; to enlist; as, to engage in controversy.

Etymology [F. engager; pref. en- (L. in) + gage pledge, pawn. See Gage.]

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

Sanskrit

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