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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unfold

UK /ʌnˈfəʊld/ · US /ʌnˈfoʊld/ verb, noun

Forms unfolds unfolding unfolded

  1. verb (transitive) To undo a folding. “to unfold a map; to unfold a tablecloth; She unpacks the new dress and unfolds it carefully.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To become unfolded. “The curtains unfolded to reveal the stage.”
  3. verb (intransitive) To turn out; to happen; to develop. “Events unfolded in an unexpected way.”
  4. verb (transitive) To lay open to view or contemplation; to bring out in all the details, or by successive development; to reveal. “to unfold one's designs; to unfold the principles of a science”
  5. verb (transitive, computing) To reassemble a line of text that was split across multiple lines.
  6. noun (computing, programming) In functional programming, a kind of higher-order function that is the opposite of a fold.
  7. verb (transitive) To release from a fold or pen. “to unfold sheep”

Synonyms

expose uncover blossom blossom out blossom forth stretch stretch out extend spread spread out open

Antonyms

fold

Etymology

From Middle English unfolden, from Old English unfealdan (“to unfold”), equivalent to un- + fold.

From un- + fold (“to confine into a fold or pen”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To open the folds of; to expand; to spread out; as, to unfold a tablecloth.
  2. verb To open, as anything covered or close; to lay open to view or contemplation; to bring out in all the details, or by successive development; to display; to disclose; to reveal; to elucidate; to explain; as, to unfold one's designs; to unfold the principles of a science.
  3. verb To open; to expand; to become disclosed or developed.

Etymology [AS. unfealdan. See 1st Un-, and Fold, v. t.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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