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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camp

/ˈkeə̯mp/ noun, verb, adjective, proper noun

Forms camps camping camped camper campest

  1. noun An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other simple structures. “There's a big camp in the woods northwest of here. It's popular with hikers and bushcrafters.”
  2. noun An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation. “I met my best friend last summer at camp. She lives in Albany and plays the clarinet.”
  3. noun A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary. “Signs of enemy recon were found near their camp last week.”
  4. noun A place of politically motivated confinement in outdoorsy conditions, usually also leading to slave labor and death. “Some say they'll round us all up into camps, but if they come for us, we'll take some out with us, on our way out.”
  5. noun A single hut or shelter. “a hunter’s camp”
  6. noun (collective) The company or body of persons encamped.
  7. noun (collective) A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings. “She's in the camp that speaks as if all vaccines were poisons.”
  8. noun (obsolete) An army.
  9. verb To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation. “We're planning to camp in the field until Sunday.”
  10. verb To set up a camp.
  11. verb (transitive) To afford rest or lodging for.
  12. verb (intransitive, sports, video games) To stay in an advantageous location. “Some players like to camp next to a power-up's spawning point.”
  13. verb (transitive, video games) To stay beside (something) to gain an advantage. “The easiest way to win on this map is to camp the double damage.”
  14. verb (Australia, intransitive) Of stock animals, to assemble or rest temporarily at a particular place.
  15. verb (intransitive, obsolete) To fight; contend in battle or in any kind of contest; to strive with others in doing anything; compete.
  16. verb (intransitive, obsolete) To wrangle; argue.
  17. noun An affected, exaggerated, or intentionally tasteless style.
  18. adjective Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.
  19. adjective (of a man) Ostentatiously flamboyant or effeminate.
  20. adjective Intentionally tasteless or vulgar; self-parodying.

Synonyms

campsite campground encampment concentration camp labor camp reeducation camp gulag stalag prison camp faction ingroup campness campiness campy campish camp it up continuous airworthiness maintenance program cantonment bivouac clique coterie inner circle pack refugee camp summer camp encamp camp out tent camp down

Antonyms

uncamp uncampy

Etymology

From Middle English kampe (“battlefield, open space”), from Old English camp (“battle, contest, battlefield, open space”), from Proto-West Germanic *kamp (“open field where military exercises are held, level plain”), from Latin campus (“open field, level plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂emp- (“to bend; crooked”). Reinforced circa 1520 by Middle French can, camp (“place where an army lodges temporarily”), from Old Northern French camp, from the same Latin (whence also French champ from Old French). Cognate with Old High German champf (“battle, struggle”) (German Kampf), Old Norse kapp (“battle”), Old High German hamf (“paralysed, maimed, mutilated”). Doublet of campus and champ.
The verb is from Middle English campen, from Old English campian, compian (“to fight, war against”), from Proto-West Germanic *kampōn (“to fight, do battle”), from *kamp (“field, battlefield, battle”), see above. Cognate with Dutch kampen, German kämpfen (“to struggle”), Danish kæmpe, Swedish kämpa.

Unknown. Suggested origins include the 17th century French word camper (“to put oneself in a pose”), an assumed dialectal English word *camp or *kemp (“rough, uncouth”) and a derivation from camp (n.) Believed to be from Polari, but otherwise obscure.

From Spanish campo (“countryside”).

Clipping.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc. Shzk.
  2. noun A collection of tents, huts, etc., for shelter, commonly arranged in an orderly manner.
  3. verb To afford rest or lodging for, as an army or travelers.
  4. verb To pitch or prepare a camp; to encamp; to lodge in a camp; --often with out. They camped out at night, under the stars. W. Irving.

Etymology [F. camp, It. campo, fr. L. campus plant, fleld; akin to Gr. Campaing, Champ, n.]

Etymology [See Camp, n., 6]

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

Sanskrit

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