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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chunk

/t͡ʃʌŋk/ noun, verb

Forms chunks chunking chunked

  1. noun A part of something that has been separated; a generally squat, thick, irregular piece of something, e.g. wood or stone. “The statue broke into chunks.”
  2. noun A large or substantial portion of something.
  3. noun (linguistics, education) A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic.
  4. noun (computing) A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.
  5. noun (comedy) A segment of a comedian's performance.
  6. verb (transitive) To break into large pieces or chunks.
  7. verb (transitive) To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size.
  8. verb (transitive, slang, chiefly Southern US) To throw.
  9. verb (intransitive, Appalachia) To add wood to a fire or to stoke it.
  10. verb (transitive, video games) To deal a substantial amount of damage to an opponent. “He's chunked right before the next battle so he has to regen HP.”
  11. verb (transitive) To remove a chunk from.

Synonyms

bit hunk lump chip tranche clip crumb crumbling cutting flake fleak fragment mammock ort piece piecemeal portion scrap scraplet slice ball clod glob clump collocate

Etymology

Variant of chuck; or alternatively a diminutive of chump (“chunk; block”) + *-k (diminutive suffix) (compare hunk from hump, etc.). Also compare Dutch schonk.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A short, thick piece of anything. [Colloq. U. S. & Prov. Eng.]

Etymology [Cf. Chump.]

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