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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“provides” is a form of

provide

/pɹəˈvaɪd/ verb

Forms provides providing provided providest providedst provideth

  1. verb To make a living; earn money for necessities. “It is difficult to provide for my family working on minimum wage.”
  2. verb To act to prepare for something. “provide against disaster.”
  3. verb To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate. “The contract provides that the work be well done.”
  4. verb To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs. “Don't bother bringing equipment, as we will provide it.”
  5. verb To furnish (with), cause to be present, supply.
  6. verb To make possible or attainable. “He provides us with an alternative option.”
  7. verb (obsolete, Latinism) To foresee, to consider in advance.
  8. verb To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.

Synonyms

afford treat supply render furnish ply cater put up offer leave allow for allow bring home the bacon

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English providen, from Latin prōvidēre (“to foresee, act with foresight”). Doublet of purvey.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare. "Provide us all things necessary." Shak.
  2. verb To supply; to afford; to contribute.
  3. verb To procure supplies or means in advance; to take measures beforehand in view of an expected or a possible future need, especially a danger or an evil; --followed by against or for; as, to provide against the inclemency of the weather; to provide for the education of a child.
  4. verb To stipulate previously; to condition; as, the agreement provides for an early completion of the work.

Etymology [L. providere, provisum; pro before + videre to see. See Vision, and cf. Prudent, Purvey.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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