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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include

/ɪnˈkluːd/ verb, noun

Forms includes including included enclude

  1. verb To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member. “I will purchase the vacation package if you will include car rental.”
  2. verb To consider as part of something; to comprehend. “The vacation package includes car rental.”
  3. verb (obsolete) To enclose, confine.
  4. verb (obsolete) To conclude; to terminate.
  5. verb (programming) To use a directive that allows the use of source code from another file. “You have to include the strings library to use this function.”
  6. noun (programming) A piece of source code or other content that is dynamically retrieved for inclusion in another item.

Synonyms

add admit allow bear circumscribe come with compose comprise consist contain count cover embody embrace encircle enclose encompass entail grant incorporate let in

Antonyms

exclude drop lack omit refrain

Etymology

From Middle English includen, borrowed from Latin inclūdere (“to shut in, enclose, insert”), from in- (“in”) + claudere (“to shut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂w- (“key, hook, nail”). Doublet of enclose. Displaced native Old English belūcan (“to include,” also “to shut in”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell.
  2. verb To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason the inference; to contain; to embrace; as, this volume of Shakespeare includes his sonnets; he was included in the invitation to the family; to and including page twenty-five.

Etymology [L. includere, inclusum; pref. in- in + claudere to shut. See Close, and cf. Enclose.]

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

Sanskrit

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