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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blueprint

/ˈbluːˌpɹɪnt/ noun, verb

Forms blueprints blueprinting blueprinted blue print blue-print

  1. noun A type of paper-based reproduction process producing white-on-blue images by means of a photosensitive ferric compound, used primarily for technical and architecture's drawings, now largely replaced by other technologies.
  2. noun A print produced with this process.
  3. noun (architecture, engineering, by extension) A detailed technical drawing (now often in some electronically storable and transmissible form).
  4. noun (informal, by extension) Any detailed plan, whether literal or figurative.
  5. verb (transitive) To make a blueprint for. “The architect blueprinted the renovation plan once the client had signed off.”
  6. verb (transitive, figuratively) To make a detailed operational plan for; to design or plan out. “They blueprinted every aspect of the first phase of the operation.”

Synonyms

cyanotype schematic road map action plan layout design pattern draft draught

Etymology

From blue + print. Introduced by Sir John Herschel in 1842.

Webster’s 1913

  1. See under Print.

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