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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bin

/ˈbɪn/ noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of ben

Forms bins binning binned

  1. noun A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container. “a corn bin”
  2. noun A container for rubbish or waste. “a rubbish bin”
  3. noun (statistics) Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc
  4. noun Any of the fixed-size chunks into which airspace is divided for the purposes of radar.
  5. noun (MLE, MTE, slang, uncommon) Jail or prison.
  6. noun (video post-production) A digital file folder for organising media in a non-linear editing program.
  7. verb (chiefly UK, informal) To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.
  8. verb (UK, informal) To throw away, reject, give up.
  9. verb (statistics) To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
  10. verb (transitive) To place into a bin for storage. “to bin wine”
  11. noun (in Arabic names) son of; equivalent to Hebrew בן (ben).
  12. proper noun A surname from Chinese.

Synonyms

container receptacle dustbin rubbish bin garbage can trash can garbage pail trash bin trashbin trashcan waste bin wastebin big house borstal bridewell brig calaboose can chokey choky binful bank identification number ABA transit number

Etymology

From Middle English bynne, from Old English binn (“crib, manger”), from Late Latin benna or a Celtic language, possibly Proto-Brythonic *benn (“cart, carriage”) (whence Middle Welsh benn, Old Breton benn (“caisson”), modern Welsh ben), from Proto-Celtic *bend(n)ā (whence Gaulish benna). Compare German Benne (“wheelbarrow”) and Middle Dutch benne (“basket”), whence modern Dutch ben and as a borrowing, West Frisian bin (both "wicker basket").

From Arabic بِن (bin, “son”).

Contraction of being.

Pronunciation spelling of been.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A box, frame, crib, or inclosed place, used as a receptacle for any commodity; as, a corn bin; a wine bin; a coal bin.
  2. verb To put into a bin; as, to bin wine.
  3. verb An old form of Be and Been. [Obs.]
  4. A euphonic form of the prefix Bi-.

Etymology [OE. binne, AS. binn manager, crib; perh. akin to D. ben, benne, basket, and to L. benna a kind of carriage ( a Gallic word), W. benn, men, wain, cart.]

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