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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chart

UK /tʃɑːt/ · US /t͡ʃɑɹt/ noun, verb

Forms charts charting charted

  1. noun A map illustrating the geography of a specific phenomenon.
  2. noun A navigator's map.
  3. noun A tabular presentation of data; a table.
  4. noun A diagram.
  5. noun A graph.
  6. noun A record of a patient's diagnosis, care instructions, and recent history. “I snuck a look at his chart. It doesn't look good.”
  7. noun A ranked listing of competitors, as of recorded music. “They're at the top of the charts again this week.”
  8. noun A written deed; a charter.
  9. verb (transitive) To draw a chart or map of. “chart the seas”
  10. verb (transitive) To draw or figure out (a route or plan). “Let's chart how we're going to get from here to there.”
  11. verb (transitive) To record systematically.
  12. verb To enter (medical information) into a medical record. “Did you chart the urine output yet?”
  13. verb (intransitive, of a record or artist) To appear on a hit-recording chart. “The song has charted for 15 weeks!”

Synonyms

coordinate chart graph

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French charte (“card, map”), from Late Latin charta (“paper, card, map”), Latin charta (“papyrus, writing”), from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus, thin sheet”). Doublet of card and carte; related to charter.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A sheet of paper, pasteboard, or the like, on which information is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historical chart.
  2. noun A map; esp., a hydrographic or marine map; a map on which is projected a portion of water and the land which it surrounds, or by which it is surrounded, intended especially for the use of seamen; as, the United States Coast Survey charts; the English Admiralty charts.
  3. verb To lay down in a chart; to map; to delineate; as, to chart a coast.

Etymology [A doublet of card: cf. F. charte charter, carte card. See Card, and cf. Charter.]

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