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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move

/muːv/ verb, noun

Forms moves moving moved movest movedst moveth meve mieve mooue moove

  1. verb (intransitive) To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another. “A ship moves rapidly.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To act; to take action; to begin to act “to move in a matter”
  3. verb (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place; similarly to change the location of another establishment such as a business. See also move out and move in. “I decided to move to the country for a more peaceful life.”
  4. verb (transitive) To transport (an item) as part of changing residences. “Before my lease ended, I gave away my old sofa because I didn't want to move it.”
  5. verb (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another “The waves moved the boat up and down.”
  6. verb (transitive, chess, board games) To transfer (a piece) from one space or position on the board to another. “She moved the queen closer to the centre of the board.”
  7. verb (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence. “This song moves me to dance.”
  8. verb (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion, to excite (for example, an emotion). “That book really moved me.”
  9. noun The act of moving; a movement. “A slight move of the tiller, and the boat will go off course.”
  10. noun An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose. “He made another move towards becoming a naturalized citizen.”
  11. noun A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc. “She always gets spontaneous applause for that one move.”
  12. noun The event of changing one's residence. “The move into my fiancé's house took two long days.”
  13. noun A change in strategy. “I am worried about our boss's move.”
  14. noun A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
  15. noun (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules of the game. “The best move of the game was when he sacrificed his rook in order to gain better possession.”
  16. noun (board games, usually in the plural) A round, in which each player has a turn. “You can win in three moves if you do that.”

Synonyms

shift stir adjust disrupt disturb place position put relocate reposition set station transfer transpose get moving take action flit move house remove drive relocation motion movement motility travel go locomote displace proceed be active

Antonyms

stand still stay

Etymology

From Middle English moven, moeven, meven, borrowed from Old Northern French mover, moveir and Old French mouver, moveir (“to move”) (compare modern French mouvoir from Old French movoir), from Latin movēre (“move; change, exchange, go in or out, quit”), from Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- (“to move, drive”). Cognate with Lithuanian mauti (“to push on, rush”), Sanskrit मीवति (mī́vati, “pushes, presses, moves”), Middle Dutch mouwe (“sleeve”). Largely displaced native English stir, from Middle English stiren, sturien, from Old English styrian. See also Old English hrēran.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as, the wind moves a vessel; the horse moves a carriage.
  2. verb To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the rules of the game; as, to move a king.
  3. verb To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another; as, a ship moves rapidly.
  4. verb To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act; as, to move in a matter.

Etymology [OE. moven, OF. moveir, F. mouvoir, L. movere; cf. Gr. miv, p.p. muta, to move, push. Cf. Emotion, Mew to molt, Mob, Mutable, Mutiny.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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