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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compass

/ˈkʌm.pəs/ noun, verb, adverb

Forms compasses compassing compassed

  1. noun A magnetic or electronic device used to determine the cardinal directions (usually magnetic or true north).
  2. noun A pair of compasses (a device used to draw circular arcs and transfer length measurements).
  3. noun (music) The range of notes of a musical instrument or voice.
  4. noun (obsolete) A space within limits; an area.
  5. noun (obsolete) An enclosing limit; a boundary, a circumference. “within the compass of an encircling wall”
  6. noun Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; used with within.
  7. noun (formal) Synonym of scope.
  8. noun (obsolete) Range, reach.
  9. verb To surround; to encircle; to environ; to stretch round.
  10. verb To go about or round entirely; to traverse.
  11. verb (dated) To accomplish; to reach; to achieve; to obtain.
  12. verb (dated) To plot; to scheme (against someone).
  13. adverb (obsolete) In a circuit; round about.

Synonyms

magnetic compass scope pair of compasses encircle environ surround cover traverse accomplish achieve attain gain get to reach conspire plot scheme range orbit ambit grasp circumnavigate grok get the picture comprehend savvy dig apprehend

Etymology

From Middle English compas (“a circle, circuit, limit, form, a mathematical instrument”), from Old French compas, from Medieval Latin compassus (“a circle, a circuit”), from Latin com- (“together”) + passus (“a pace, step, later a pass, way, route”); see pass, pace.

From Middle English compassen (“to go around, make a circuit, draw a circle, contrive, intend”), from Old French compasser; from the noun; see compass as a noun.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A passing round; circuit; circuitous course.
  2. noun An inclosing limit; boundary; circumference; as, within the compass of an encircling wall.
  3. verb To go about or entirely round; to make the circuit of. Ye shall compass the city seven times. Josh. vi. 4.
  4. verb To inclose on all sides; to surround; to encircle; to envior; to invest; to besiege; --used with about, round, around, and round about.

Etymology [F. compas, fr. LL. compassus circle, prop., a stepping together; com- + passus pace, step. See Pace, Pass.]

Etymology [F. compasser, LL. compassare.]

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

Sanskrit

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