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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transform

UK /tɹænsˈfɔːm/ · US /tɹænsˈfɔɹm/ verb, noun

Forms transforms transforming transformed xform

  1. verb (transitive) To change greatly the appearance or form of. “The alchemists sought to transform lead into gold.”
  2. verb (transitive) To change the nature, condition or function of; to change in nature, disposition, heart, character, etc.; to convert.
  3. verb (transitive, mathematics) To subject to a transformation; to change into another form without altering the value.
  4. verb (transitive, electricity) To subject to the action of a transformer.
  5. verb (transitive, genetics) To subject (a cell) to transformation.
  6. verb (intransitive) To undergo a transformation; to change in appearance or character.
  7. noun (mathematical analysis) An operation (often an integration) that converts one function into another.
  8. noun (by extension) A function so produced.
  9. noun (geology, seismology) A transform fault.

Synonyms

convert make over transmogrify transmute develop draw evolve metamorphize metamorphose reconvert shift transfigurate transfigure transume metamorphosize transubstantiate translate

Etymology

From Middle English transformen, from Old French transformer, from Latin transformo, transformare, from trans (“across”, preposition) + forma (“form”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To change the form of; to change in shape or appearance; to metamorphose; as, a caterpillar is ultimately transformed into a butterfly.
  2. verb To change into another substance; to transmute; as, the alchemists sought to transform lead into gold.
  3. verb To be changed in form; to be metamorphosed. [R.]

Etymology [L. transformare, transformatum; trans across, over + formare to from: cf. F. transformer. See Form, v. t.]

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

Sanskrit

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