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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chord

UK /kɔːd/ · US /kɔɹd/ noun, verb

Forms chords chording chorded cord

  1. noun (music) A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.
  2. noun (geometry) A line segment between two points of a curve.
  3. noun (engineering) A horizontal member of a truss.
  4. noun (rail transport) A section of subsidiary railway track that interconnects two primary tracks that cross at different levels, to permit traffic to flow between them.
  5. noun (aeronautics) The distance between the leading and trailing edge of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow.
  6. noun (nautical) An imaginary line from the luff of a sail to its leech.
  7. noun (computing) A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P.
  8. noun The string of a musical instrument.
  9. verb (transitive) To write chords for.
  10. verb (music) To accord; to harmonize together. “This note chords with that one.”
  11. verb (transitive) To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.

Synonyms

harmonize harmonise

Etymology

Variant of cord, with spelling alteration due to Latin chorda (“cord”), ultimately from Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “string of gut, the string of a lyre”). No relation to French accord (“chord”) and its derivations. Doublet of cuerda.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The string of a musical instrument. Milton.
  2. noun A combination of tones simultaneously performed, producing more or less perfect harmony, as, the common chord.
  3. verb To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.
  4. verb To accord; to harmonize together; as, this note chords with that.

Etymology [L chorda a gut, a string made of a gut, Gr. cord. See Cord.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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