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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wireless

UK /ˈwaɪə.ləs/ · US /ˈwaɪ(jə)ɹ.ləs/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms wirelesses wirelessing wirelessed

  1. adjective Not having any wires.
  2. adjective Functioning without an external wired connection. “wireless headphones”
  3. noun (uncountable) The medium of radio communication. “Only about a hundred years ago, wireless was a new technology.”
  4. noun (uncountable, networking) A wireless connectivity to a computer network. “If your wireless stops working, try restarting the router.”
  5. noun (chiefly UK, dated) A radio set. “Let's switch on the wireless and listen to the news.”
  6. verb (dated or obsolete, transitive) To send (a message) by wireless or radio.

Synonyms

cordless radio radiocommunication radio receiver receiving set radio set tuner

Antonyms

wired

Etymology

From wire + -less.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having no wire; specif. (Elec.),
  2. adjective designating, or pertaining to, a method of telegraphy, telephony, etc., in which the messages, etc., are transmitted through space by electric waves; as, a wireless message. -- Wireless telegraphy or telegraph (Elec.), any system of telegraphy employing no connecting wire or wires between the transmitting and receiving stations. Although more or less successful researchers were made on the subject by Joseph Henry, Hertz, Oliver Lodge, and others, the first commercially successful system was that of Guglielmo Marconi, patented in March, 1897. Marconi employed electric waves of high frequency se
  3. noun Short for Wireless telegraphy, Wireless telephony, etc.; as, to send a message by wireless.

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