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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cable

/ˈkeɪ.bəl/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms cables cabling cabled

  1. noun A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope.
  2. noun An assembly of two or more cable-laid ropes.
  3. noun An assembly of two or more wires, used for electrical power or data circuits; one or more and/or the whole may be insulated.
  4. noun (nautical) A strong rope or chain used to moor or anchor a ship.
  5. noun (communication) A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables. “I tried to watch the movie last night but my cable was out.”
  6. noun A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable.
  7. noun (nautical) A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile.
  8. noun (unit, chiefly nautical) 100 fathoms, 600 imperial feet, approximately 185 m.
  9. verb (transitive) To provide (something) with cable(s).
  10. verb (transitive) To fasten (something) (as if) with cable(s).
  11. verb (transitive) To wrap (wires) to form a cable.
  12. verb (transitive) To send (a telegram, news, etc.) by cable.
  13. verb (intransitive) To communicate by cable.
  14. verb (transitive, architecture) To ornament (something) with cabling.
  15. verb (intransitive, knitting) To create cable stitches.
  16. proper noun A surname from Anglo-Norman.
  17. proper noun A census-designated place in Richland Grove Township, Mercer County, Illinois.
  18. proper noun An unincorporated community in Haven Township, Sherburne County, Minnesota.
  19. proper noun An unincorporated community in Wayne Township, Champaign County, Ohio.
  20. proper noun A town and census-designated place therein, in Bayfield County, Wisconsin.

Synonyms

wire rope cord string cablegram cable length overseas telegram line transmission line cable's length cable television cable system cable television service telegraph wire

Etymology

Recorded since c.1205 as Middle English cable, from Old Northern French cable, from Late Latin capulum (“lasso, rope, halter”), from Latin capiō (“to take, seize”). Use of the term "cable" to refer to the USD/GBP exchange rate originated in the mid-19th century, when the exchange rate began to be transmitted across the Atlantic by a submarine communications cable.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A large, strong rope or chain, of considerable length, used to retain a vessel at anchor, and for other purposes. It is made of hemp, of steel wire, or of iron links.
  2. noun A rope of steel wire, or copper wire, usually covered with some protecting, or insulating substance; as, the cable of a suspension bridge; a telegraphic cable.
  3. verb To fasten with a cable.
  4. verb To ornament with cabling. See Cabling.

Etymology [F. Câble,m LL. capulum, caplum, a rope, fr. L. capere to take; cf. D., Dan., & G. rabel, from the French. See Capable.]

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