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

cell

/sɛl/ noun, verb

Forms cells celling celled

  1. noun A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
  2. noun (now historical) A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.
  3. noun A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person. “Gregor Mendel must have spent a good amount of time outside of his cell.”
  4. noun A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates. “The combatants spent the night in separate cells.”
  5. noun Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.
  6. noun (biology, now chiefly botany) Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.
  7. noun (entomology) The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.
  8. noun (obsolete) Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories.
  9. verb (transitive) To place or enclose in a cell.
  10. noun (US, New Zealand, Australia, Philippines, India, informal) A cellular phone.

Synonyms

prison cell cyte electric cell cadre cellular telephone cellular phone cellphone mobile phone cubicle jail cell

Etymology

From Middle English celle, selle, from Old English cell (attested in inflected forms), from Latin cella (“chamber, small room, compartment”), later reinforced by Old French cel, sele, Old French cele. Ultimately from Proto-Italic *kelnā, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelneh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”). Doublet of cella and hall.

Ellipsis of cell phone, itself a clipping of cellular phone, from cellular + phone.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.
  2. noun A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent. "Cells or dependent priories." Milman.
  3. verb To place or inclosed in a cell. "Celled under ground." [R.]

Etymology [OF. celle, fr. L. cella; akin to celare to hide, and E. hell, helm, conceal. Cf. Hall.]

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

Sanskrit

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