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

car

UK /kɑː/ · US /kɑɹ/ noun, proper noun

Forms cars carr

  1. noun A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver and mostly for personal transportation but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry and a bus. “in a car”
  2. noun (archaic) A wheeled vehicle, drawn by a horse or other animal.
  3. noun (archaic) A cart.
  4. noun (archaic) A chariot.
  5. noun (UK, Birmingham, obsolete) A four-wheeled cab, as opposed to a (two-wheeled) Hansom cab.
  6. noun (rail transport, chiefly Canada, US) An unpowered unit in a railroad train, used to hold either passengers or cargo. “The conductor coupled the cars to the locomotive.”
  7. noun A similar vehicle used in special contexts, such as mines, quarries, and mills.
  8. noun (rail transport) an individual vehicle, powered or unpowered, in a multiple unit. “The 11:10 to London was operated by a 4-car diesel multiple unit.”
  9. noun (programming) The first part of a cons in Lisp. The first element of a list.
  10. proper noun The most widespread of the Nicobarese languages spoken in the Nicobar Islands of India (ISO 839-3 code "caq").
  11. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

auto motorcar vehicle automobile motor carriage cage cah devil wagon horseless carriage motor car wheels whip railcar wagon carload wagonload gondola basket Car Nicobarese machine railway car railroad car elevator car cable car

Antonyms

cdr

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English carre, borrowed from Anglo-Norman carre, from Old Northern French (compare Old French char), from Latin carrus (“two-wheeled baggage wagon”), from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”). Doublet of carrus and horse.

Acronym of contents of the address part of register number. Note that it was based on original hardware and has no meaning today.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A small vehicle moved on wheels; usually, one having but two wheels and drawn by one horse; a cart.
  2. noun A vehicle adapted to the rails of a railroad. [U. S.]

Etymology [OF. car, char, F. cahr, fr. L. carrus, Wagon: a Celtic word; cf. W. car, Armor. karr, Ir. & Gael. carr. cf. Chariot.]

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “car” (best matches first).

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