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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grant

UK /ɡɹɑːnt/ · US /ɡɹænt/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms grants granting granted grantest grantedst granteth graunt

  1. verb (ditransitive) To give (permission or wish). “He was granted permission to attend the meeting.”
  2. verb (ditransitive) To give (bestow upon or confer, particularly in answer to prayer or request).
  3. verb (transitive) To agree with (someone) on (something); to accept (something) for the sake of argument; to admit to (someone) that (something) is true.
  4. verb (intransitive) To assent; to consent.
  5. noun The act of granting or giving “the grant of permission for a project”
  6. noun The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
  7. noun The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon. “I got a grant from the government to study archeology in Egypt.”
  8. noun (law) A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the government. “a grant of land or of money”
  9. noun The deed or writing by which such a transfer is made.
  10. noun (informal) An application for a grant (monetary boon to aid research or the like).
  11. proper noun An English surname transferred from the nickname and a Scottish clan name, from a nickname meaning "large".
  12. proper noun A male given name transferred from the surname.
  13. proper noun A town in Marshall County, Alabama.
  14. proper noun An unincorporated community in Inyo County, California.
  15. proper noun An unincorporated community in Park County, Colorado.
  16. proper noun A small city in Montgomery County, Iowa.
  17. proper noun A small city in Newaygo County, Michigan.
  18. proper noun A city in Washington County, Minnesota.
  19. noun (US, slang) A United States fifty-dollar bill.

Synonyms

concur concede allow concession allowance Ulysses Grant Ulysses S. Grant U.S. Grant subsidization subsidisation assignment Duncan Grant Duncan James Corrow Grant Cary Grant Ulysses Simpson Grant Hiram Ulysses Grant President Grant award yield accord allot give cede deed over

Antonyms

deny

Etymology

From Middle English granten, graunten, grantien, grauntien, from Anglo-Norman granter, graunter, from Old French granter, graunter, graanter, greanter (“to promise, assure, guarantee, confirm, ratify”), from a merger of Old French garantir, guarantir (“to guarantee, assure, vouch for”) (see English guarantee) and earlier cranter, craanter, creanter (“to allow, permit”), from an assumed Medieval Latin *credentāre, from Latin credere (“to believe, trust”). Alternatively, a regular reflex of Medieval Latin *credentāre with regular voicing of /k/ before a liquid plus low vowel. More at guarantee, credit.

From Scottish Gaelic Grannd, from Anglo-Norman graunt (“big, large”), from Old French grant, from Latin grandis. Doublet of grand. The dollar-bill sense is from the portrait of Ulysses S. Grant featured on it.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; --usually in answer to petition.
  2. verb To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.
  3. verb To assent; to consent. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  4. noun The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.

Etymology [OE. graunten, granten, OF. graanter, craanter, creanter, to promise, yield, LL. creantare to promise, assure, for (assumed LL.) credentare to make believe, fr. L. credens, p. pr. of credere to believe. See Creed, Credit.]

Etymology [OE. grant, graunt, OF. graant, creant, promise, assurance. See Grant, v. t.]

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

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