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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

crime

/kɹaɪm/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms crimes criming crimed

  1. noun (countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law, especially criminal law. “the commission of a crime”
  2. noun (countable) Any great sin or wickedness; iniquity. “Those methods of saving money should be a crime.”
  3. noun (countable, obsolete) That which occasions crime.
  4. noun (uncountable) Criminal acts collectively. “an effort by the police to tackle crime in the city”
  5. noun (uncountable) The habit or practice of committing crimes. “Crime doesn’t pay.”
  6. verb (UK, military, transitive) To subject to disciplinary punishment.
  7. verb (nonce word) To commit crime.
  8. proper noun (computing) A particular security exploit against secret Web cookies over connections using the HTTPS and SPDY protocols that also use data compression. It relies on observing the change in size of the compressed ciphertext for various inputs.

Synonyms

criminal offence unlawfulness delinquency wrongdoing delict error malfeasance misdeed misdemeanor misdoing offense peccadillo sin tort tortfeasance transgression veniality villainy wrong criminality criminal offense offence law-breaking

Antonyms

noncrime

Etymology

From Middle English cryme, crime, from Old French crime, crimne, from Latin crīmen. Displaced native Old English firen.

Short for compression ratio info-leak made easy, chosen to spell the word crime.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law.
  2. noun Gross violation of human law, in distinction from a misdemeanor or trespass, or other slight offense. Hence, also, any aggravated offense against morality or the public welfare; any outrage or great wrong. "To part error from crime." Tennyson.

Etymology [F. crime, fr. L. crimen judicial decision, that which is subjected to such a decision, charge, fault, crime, fr. the root of cernere to decide judicially. See Certain.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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