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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explore

UK /ɪkˈsplɔː/ · US /ɪkˈsploɹ/ verb, noun

Forms explores exploring explored

  1. verb (intransitive, obsolete) To seek for something or after someone.
  2. verb (transitive) To examine or investigate something systematically. “The committee has been exploring alternative solutions to the problem at hand.”
  3. verb (transitive) To travel somewhere in search of discovery. “It was around that time that the expedition began exploring the Arctic Circle.”
  4. verb (intransitive, medicine) To examine diagnostically.
  5. verb (transitive) To (seek) experience first hand. “It is normal for a boy of this age to be exploring his sexuality.”
  6. verb (intransitive) To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses. “He was too busy exploring to notice his son needed his guidance.”
  7. verb (intransitive) To wander without any particular aim or purpose. “The boys explored all around till cold and hunger drove them back to the campfire one by one.”
  8. verb (transitive) To seek sexual variety, to sow one's wild oats.
  9. noun (colloquial) An exploration; a tour of a place to see what it is like.

Synonyms

delve into research search

Etymology

From Middle French explorer, from Latin explōrāre (“to investigate, search out”), itself said to be originally a hunters' term meaning "to set up a loud cry", from ex- (“out”) + plōrāre (“to cry”), but the second element is also explained as "to make to flow" (from pluere (“to flow”)). Displaced native Old English rāsian.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To seek for or after; to strive to attain by search; to look wisely and carefully for. [Obs.]
  2. verb To search through or into; to penetrate or range over for discovery; to examine thoroughly; as, to explore new countries or seas; to explore the depths of science. "Hidden frauds [to] explore." Dryden.

Etymology [L. explorare to explore; ex out+plorare to cry out aloud,prob. orig., to cause to flow; perh. akin to E. flow: cf. F. explorer.]

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

Sanskrit

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