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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color

/ˈkʌl.ə(ɹ)/ noun, adjective, verb

Also a form of colour

Forms colors coloring colored colour usage notes

  1. noun (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light. “Humans and birds can perceive color.”
  2. noun (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class. “Most languages have names for the colors black, white, red, and green.”
  3. noun (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays). “The accident victim's face was white, drained of all color.”
  4. noun These hues as used in color television or films, color photographs, etc (as opposed to the shades of grey used in black-and-white television). “This film is broadcast in color.”
  5. noun (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert.
  6. noun A paint. “The artist took out her colors and began work on a landscape.”
  7. noun (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity. “Color has been a sensitive issue in many societies.”
  8. noun (medicine) Skin color, noted as normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
  9. adjective Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray. “Color television and movies were considered a great improvement over black and white.”
  10. verb (transitive) To give something color. “We could color the walls red.”
  11. verb (transitive) To cause (a pipe, especially a meerschaum) to take on a brown or black color, by smoking.
  12. verb (intransitive) To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons. “My kindergartener loves to color.”
  13. verb (of a person or their face) To become red through increased blood flow. “Her face colored as she realized her mistake.”
  14. verb To affect without completely changing. “That interpretation certainly colors my perception of the book.”
  15. verb (informal) To attribute a quality to; to portray (as). “Color me confused.”
  16. verb (mathematics, graph theory) To assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color. “Can this graph be 2-colored?”
  17. verb (linguistics, usually of a phoneme) To affect the quality of a speech sound, especially a vowel. “Many languages have a "neutral", roughly central vowel like /a/ or /ə/ which can be colored to a back, rounded vowel like [o] by an adjacent labialized consonant, or to a front, unrounded vowel like [e] by an adjacent palatalized consonant.”

Synonyms

blee hue shade color television complexion ethnicity race banner standard colour DgammaDtime gamma decay tincture tint dye paint stain tinge color in blush coloring colouring vividness coloration colouration people of color people of colour semblance gloss coloring material

Antonyms

decolor colorlessness discolor black-and-white

Etymology

From Middle English colour, color, borrowed from Anglo-Norman colur, from Old French colour, color, from Latin color. Doublet of couleur.
Largely displaced English blee, Middle English blee (“color”), from Old English blēo. Also partially replaced Old English hīew (“color”) and its descendants (English hue), which is less often used in this sense.
The spelling color was popularized in modern American English by Noah Webster, to match the spelling of the word's Latin etymon, and make all American spellings of the derivatives consistent (colorimeter, coloration, colorize, colorless, etc).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehended in vision; as, gay colors; sad colors, etc.
  2. noun Any hue distinguished from white or black.
  3. verb To change or alter the bue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to aint; to stain.
  4. verb To change or alter, as if by dyeing or painting; to give a false appearance to; usually, to give a specious appearance to; to cause to appear attractive; to make plausible; to palliate or excuse; as, the facts were colored by his prejudices.

Etymology [OF. color, colur, colour, F. couleur, L. color; prob. akin to celare to conceal (the color taken as that which covers). See Helmet.]

Etymology [F. colorer.]

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