Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: establish
IPA transcription: [ɪst'æblɪʃ]
Pronunciations of establish
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verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: establish, set_up, found, launch
    Meaning: set up or found; "She set up a literacy program"
  • Synonyms: establish, found, plant, constitute, institute
    Meaning: set up or lay the groundwork for; "establish a new department"
  • Synonyms: prove, demonstrate, establish, show, shew
    Meaning: establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment; "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound"; "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture"
  • Synonyms: lay_down, establish, make
    Meaning: institute, enact, or establish; "make laws"
  • Synonyms: establish, give
    Meaning: bring about; "The trompe l'oeil-illusion establishes depth"
  • Synonyms: install, instal, set_up, establish
    Meaning: place; "Her manager had set her up at the Ritz"
  • Synonyms: build, establish
    Meaning: build or establish something abstract; "build a reputation"
  • Synonyms: establish, base, ground, found
    Meaning: use as a basis for; found on; "base a claim on some observation"
Usage examples
  • I was intent upon the recollection, eager to fix and establish it.
  • Kepler tried to establish some propelling force emanating from the sun, like the spokes of a windmill.
  • It is reserved for the practical genius of Americans to establish a communication with the sidereal world.
  • I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect between the disaster and the atrocity.
  • Nevertheless, I am bound to add that some practical geniuses have attempted to establish actual communication with her.
  • Between employer and employed there is not sufficient pains taken on the part of the former to establish a mutual understanding.
  • Non-intervention then meant, as the debates show, that Congress should neither prohibit nor establish slavery in the Territories.
  • In one case a young man who was forcibly carried over the sea lived to make his way back to England and establish his claim to a peerage.
  • Moreover it does not appear that those planters who first bought negroes at the auction block intended to establish a system of permanent bondage.
  • This then is the first principle I establish in the science of human nature; nor ought we to despise it because of the simplicity of its appearance.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Bill Clinton, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Iapetus (moon), License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording D. B. Cooper, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Catholic Church, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording History of the Middle East, License CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording 300 (film), License CC BY-SA 4.0
6. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording NASA, License CC BY-SA 4.0
7. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording William the Conqueror, License CC BY-SA 4.0
8. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Thomas Jefferson, License CC BY-SA 4.0
9. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Pierre Trudeau, License CC BY-SA 4.0