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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induce

UK /ɪnˈdjuːs/ · US /ɪnˈduːs/ verb

Forms induces inducing induced

  1. verb (transitive) To lead by persuasion or influence; incite or prevail upon.
  2. verb (transitive) To cause, bring about, lead to. “His meditation induced a compromise. Opium induces sleep.”
  3. verb (transitive) To induce the labour of (a pregnant woman).
  4. verb (physics) To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state) by a physical process of induction.
  5. verb (transitive, logic) To infer by induction.
  6. verb (transitive, obsolete) To lead in, bring in, introduce.
  7. verb (transitive, obsolete) To draw on, place upon.

Synonyms

entice inveigle put someone up to something bring about instigate prompt stimulate trigger provoke abet actuate goose fuel light a fire under send sting cheer draw drive encourage bring on cause have get make rush hasten induct

Antonyms

deduce

Etymology

From Middle English enducen, borrowed from Latin indūcere (“lead in, bring in, introduce”), from in + dūcō (“lead, conduct”). Compare also abduce, adduce, conduce, deduce, produce, reduce etc. Doublet of endue.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To lead in; to introduce. [Obs.]
  2. verb To draw on; to overspread. [A Latinism] Cowper.

Etymology [L. inducere, inductum; pref. in- in + ducere to lead. See Duke, and cf. Induct.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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