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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cartoon

UK /kɑːˈtuːn/ · US /kɑɹˈtun/ noun, verb

Forms cartoons cartooning cartooned

  1. noun (comics) A humorous drawing, often with a caption, or a strip of such drawings.
  2. noun (comics) A drawing satirising current public figures. “The newspaper published a political cartoon mocking the mayor.”
  3. noun (art) An artist's preliminary sketch.
  4. noun (art) A full-sized drawing that serves as the template for a fresco, a tapestry, etc.
  5. noun (animation) An animated piece of film which is often but not exclusively humorous. “The children watched a funny cartoon on TV.”
  6. noun (animation) A cartoon series.
  7. noun A diagram in a scientific concept.
  8. verb (art, comics, animation) To draw a cartoon, a humorous drawing.
  9. verb (art) To make a preliminary sketch.

Synonyms

comic strip strip cartoon caricature political cartoon animated cartoon animation sketch toon

Etymology

In British English first, from French carton (“sketch, cardboard, card”), from Italian cartone (“cardboard, carton, box”), augmentative of carta (“paper”), from Latin carta (“papyrus, paper”), from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs) (see there for further etymology). Doublet of carton and card.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A design or study drawn of the full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying; --used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like; as, the cartoons of Raphael.
  2. noun A large pictorial sketch, as in a journal or magazine; esp. a pictorial caricature; as , the cartoons of "Puck."

Etymology [F. carton (cf. It. cartons pasteboard, cartoon.); fr. L. charta. See 1st card.]

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