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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receive

UK /ɹɪˈsiːv/ · US /ɹɪˈsiv/ verb, noun

Forms receives receiving received receivest receivedst receiveth receave receyve

  1. verb (transitive) To be given, sent, or paid something. “He received many presents for his birthday.”
  2. verb (transitive, dated) To take, as something that is offered; to accept. “He had the offer of employment, but he would not receive it.”
  3. verb (law) To take goods knowing them to be stolen.
  4. verb (transitive) To act as a host for guests; to give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, etc. “to receive a lodger, visitor, ambassador, messenger, etc.”
  5. verb (transitive) To incur (an injury). “I received a bloody nose from the collision.”
  6. verb To allow (a custom, tradition, etc.); to give credence or acceptance to.
  7. verb (telecommunications) To detect a signal from a transmitter.
  8. verb (tennis, badminton, squash) To be in a position to hit back a service.
  9. noun (telecommunications) An operation in which data is received.

Synonyms

have acquire accept attain come by cop enlist fang gain garner get get hold of get one's hands on land lay hands on lay hold of obtain procure secure score find incur pick up experience take in invite welcome meet encounter

Antonyms

give lose sell get rid of unacquire unget

Etymology

From Middle English receyven, from Old French receivre, from Latin recipere (“take back, accept, etc.”), from re- (“back”) + capiō (“to take”); see capacious. Compare conceive, deceive, perceive. Displaced native Middle English terms in -fon/-fangen (e.g. afon, anfon, afangen, underfangen, etc. "to receive" from Old English -fōn), native Middle English thiggen (“to receive”) (from Old English þiċġan), and non-native Middle English aquilen, enquilen (“to receive”) (from Old French aquillir, encueillir).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to receive a gift, a message, or a letter.
  2. verb Hence: To gain the knowledge of; to take into the mind by assent to; to give admission to; to accept, as an opinion, notion, etc.; to embrace.
  3. verb To receive visitors; to be at home to receive calls; as, she receives on Tuesdays.
  4. verb To return, or bat back, the ball when served; as, it is your turn to receive.

Etymology [OF. receiver, recevoir, F. recevoir, fr. L. recipere; pref. re- re- + capere to take, seize. See See Capable, Heave, and cf. Receipt, Reception, Recipe.]

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

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