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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resemble

/ɹɪˈzɛmbəl/ verb

Forms resembles resembling resembled

  1. verb (transitive) To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar. “The twins resemble each other.”
  2. verb (transitive, now rare, archaic) To compare; to regard as similar, to liken.
  3. verb (obsolete, transitive) To counterfeit; to imitate.
  4. verb (obsolete, transitive) To cause to imitate or be like; to make similar.

Synonyms

recall favor mirror duplicate look like smack of

Antonyms

differ assimilate connaturalize normalize standardise

Etymology

From Middle English resemblen, from Anglo-Norman resembler, ressembler, from re- + sembler (“to seem”). By surface analysis, re- + semble.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other.
  2. verb To liken; to compare; to represent as like. [Obs.]

Etymology [F. ressembler; pref. re- re- + sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. similis like, similar. See Similar.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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