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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broadcast

/ˈbɹɔːd(ˌ)kɑːst/ adjective, adverb, noun, verb

Forms broadcasts broadcasting broadcasted

  1. adjective Cast or scattered widely in all directions; cast abroad. “The seed was broadcast, not drilled.”
  2. adjective Communicated, signalled, or transmitted to many people, through radio waves or electronic means.
  3. adjective (attributive) Relating to transmissions of messages or signals to many people through radio waves or electronic means.
  4. adverb Widely in all directions; abroad.
  5. adverb (agriculture, horticulture, archaic) By having its seeds sown over a wide area.
  6. noun A transmission of a radio or television programme intended to be received by anyone with a receiver.
  7. noun A programme (bulletin, documentary, show, etc.) so transmitted. “The DJ was feeling nervous before his first national broadcast.”
  8. noun (agriculture, horticulture, archaic) The act of scattering seed; a crop grown from such seed.
  9. verb (transitive) To transmit a message or signal through radio waves or electronic means.
  10. verb (transitive) To transmit a message over a wide area.
  11. verb (specifically) To send an email in a single transmission to a (typically large) number of people.
  12. verb (intransitive) To appear as a performer, presenter, or speaker in a broadcast programme.
  13. verb (transitive, agriculture, horticulture, archaic) To sow seeds over a wide area.

Synonyms

widespread air transmit send program programme beam circulate circularize circularise distribute disseminate propagate spread diffuse disperse pass around

Antonyms

narrowcast

Etymology

From broad + cast. First attested in the mid 18th century, in the agricultural use of spreading seeds.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.
  2. adjective Cast or dispersed in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; widely diffused.
  3. adjective Scattering in all directions (as a method of sowing); --opposed to planting in hills, or rows.
  4. adverb So as to scatter or be scattered in all directions; so as to spread widely, as seed from the hand in sowing, or news from the press.

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