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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ignite

/ɪɡˈnaɪt/ verb

Forms ignites igniting ignited

  1. verb (transitive) To set fire to (something), to light (something)
  2. verb (transitive) To spark off (something), to trigger “ignite curiosity”
  3. verb (intransitive) To commence burning.
  4. verb (chemistry, transitive) To subject to the action of intense heat; to heat strongly; often said of incombustible or infusible substances. “to ignite iron or platinum”

Synonyms

inflame kindle aflame alight conflagrate fire fire up enkindle light light up set ablaze set afire set aflame set alight set fire set on fire torch engender provoke abet erupt catch fire take fire combust stir up wake heat

Antonyms

extinguish

Etymology

From Latin ignītus, past participle of igniō, ignire (“to set on fire, ignite”), from Latin ignis (“fire”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥gʷnis, and thus related to Sanskrit अग्नि (agní), Lithuanian ugnis, and Russian ого́нь (ogónʹ).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To kindle or set on fire; as, to ignite paper or wood.
  2. verb To subject to the action of intense heat; to heat strongly; --often said of incombustible or infusible substances; as, to ignite iron or platinum.
  3. verb To take fire; to begin to burn.

Etymology [L. ignitus, p.p. of ignire to ignite, fr. ignis fire. See Igneous.]

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

Sanskrit

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