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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

acid

/ˈæsɪd/ adjective, noun

Forms acider acidest acids

  1. adjective Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar. “acid fruits or liquors”
  2. adjective (figuratively) Sour-tempered. “His response was harsh and acid.”
  3. adjective Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic. “acid soils”
  4. adjective (music) Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as in acid house, acid jazz, acid rock.
  5. noun A sour substance.
  6. noun Any compound which yields H+ ions (protons) when dissolved in water; an Arrhenius acid.
  7. noun Any compound that easily donates protons to a base; a Brønsted acid.
  8. noun Any compound that can accept a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond; a Lewis acid.
  9. noun Any corrosive substance.
  10. noun (uncountable, slang) LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide.

Synonyms

acidic back breaker battery-acid dose dot Elvis loony toons Lucy in the sky with diamonds pane superman window pane Zen acerb acerbic acrid bitter blistering caustic sulfurous sulphurous virulent vitriolic acidulent acidulous

Antonyms

alkaline base alkali

Etymology

From French acide, from Latin acidus (“sour, acid”), from aceō (“to be sour”). Doublet of agita.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar: as, acid fruits or liquors. Also fig.: Sour-tempered.
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to an acid; as, acid reaction.
  3. noun A sour substance.
  4. noun One of a class of compounds, generally but not always distinguished by their sour taste, solubility in water, and reddening of vegetable blue or violet colors. They are also characterized by the power of destroying the distinctive properties of alkalies or bases, combining with them to form salts, at the same time losing their own peculiar properties. They all contain hydrogen, united with a more negative element or radical, either alone, or more generally with oxygen, and take their names from this negative element or radical. Those which contain no oxygen are sometimes called hydracids in di

Etymology [L. acidus sour, fr. the root ak to be sharp: cf. F. acide. Cf. Acute.]

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

Sanskrit

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