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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chocolate

UK /ˈtʃɒk.(ə.)lət/ · US /ˈtʃɔk.(ə.)lɪt/ noun, adjective, verb

Forms chocolates chocolating chocolated

  1. noun (chiefly uncountable) A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans. “Chocolate is a very popular treat.”
  2. noun (chiefly uncountable) A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk or water.
  3. noun (countable) A single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate. “He bought her some chocolates as a gift. She ate one chocolate and threw the rest away.”
  4. noun (uncountable) A dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate (also called chocolate brown). “As he cooked it the whole thing turned a rich, deep chocolate.”
  5. noun (countable) A cat having a chocolate-colored coat.
  6. noun (countable, slang) A black person.
  7. noun (uncountable) Blackness.
  8. adjective Made of or containing chocolate.
  9. adjective Having a dark reddish-brown colour/color.
  10. adjective (slang) Black (relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin).
  11. verb (transitive, rare, chiefly in the past participle) To add chocolate to; to cover (food) in chocolate.
  12. verb (rare, biology) To treat blood agar by heating in order to lyse the red blood cells in the medium.

Synonyms

choc choccy chockie chocky choco cocoa hot chocolate drinking chocolate coffee deep brown umber burnt umber

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chocolate, from Classical Nahuatl chocolātl, of uncertain origin. See that entry for more information.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A paste or cake composed of the roasted seeds of the Theobroma Cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients, usually sugar, and cinnamon or vanilla.
  2. noun The beverage made by dissolving a portion of the paste or cake in boiling water or milk. Chocolate house, a house in which customers may be served with chocolate.

Etymology [Sp., fr. the Mexican name of the cacao. Cf. Cacao, Cocoa.]

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