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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recall

UK /ɹɪˈkɔːl/ · US /ɹɪˈkɔl/ verb, noun

Forms recalls recalling recalled recal re-call

  1. verb (transitive) To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).
  2. verb (transitive) To call back, bring back, or summon (someone) to a specific place, station, etc. “He was recalled to service after his retirement.”
  3. verb (transitive, US politics) To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote.
  4. verb (transitive) To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc.
  5. verb (transitive, intransitive) To call back (a situation, event, etc.) to one's mind; to remember; to recollect.
  6. verb (transitive) To hearken back to, evoke; to be reminiscent of.
  7. verb (transitive, intransitive) To call again; to call another time.
  8. verb (transitive) To request or order the return of (a faulty product).
  9. noun Request of the return of a faulty product. “recall campaign”
  10. noun (chiefly US politics) The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of their term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters. “recall petition”
  11. noun (US politics) The right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive Party for certain cases involving the police power of the state.
  12. noun Memory; the ability to remember.
  13. noun (information retrieval, machine learning) The fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search. “precision and recall”

Synonyms

withcall abjure backpedal disavow disown eat one's words recant retract revoke swallow take back unsay unspeak walk back withdraw sensitivity callback recollection reminiscence remember retrieve call back call up recollect think hark back return come back echo call in

Antonyms

issue

Etymology

From re- + call, probably modelled on Latin revocāre, French rappeler, English withcall.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.
  2. verb To revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; to take back; to withdraw; as, to recall words, or a decree.
  3. noun A calling back; a revocation.
  4. noun A call on the trumpet, bugle, or drum, by which soldiers are recalled from duty, labor, etc. Wilhelm.

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

Sanskrit

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