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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cube

UK /kjuːb/ · US /kjub/ noun, verb, adjective

Forms cubes cubing cubed

  1. noun (geometry) A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces. “When the math teacher is teaching the class about cubes, he asks them to imagine a cardboard box whose width, length, and height are all the same.”
  2. noun Any object more or less in the form of a cube. “A: One cube or two? B: Oh, no sugar for me, thanks.”
  3. noun (mathematics) The third power of a number, value, term or expression. “The cube of 2 is 8.”
  4. noun (computing) A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube.
  5. noun A Rubik's cube style puzzle, not necessarily in the shape of a cube.
  6. noun (1950s slang, dated) An extremely socially conventional or conservative person, more so than even a square.
  7. verb (transitive, arithmetic) To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice. “Three cubed can be written as 3³, and equals twenty-seven.”
  8. verb (transitive) To form into the shape of a cube.
  9. verb (transitive) To cut into cubes. “Cube the ham right after adding the curry to the rice.”
  10. verb (intransitive) To use a Rubik's cube. “He likes to cube now and then.”
  11. adjective (postpositive) Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself twice.
  12. noun A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices. “My co-worker annoys me by throwing things over the walls of my cube.”

Synonyms

regular hexahedron block brick die square block third power to cut into cubes dice

Antonyms

cube root

Etymology

From Old French cube, from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).
Displaced Old English tæfel ("cube, die, game with dice or tables").

Clipped form of cubicle (with intentional reference to their common shape per cube, etymology 1), which from Latin cubiculum (“a small bedchamber or lounge”), from cubare (“to lie down”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A regular solid body, with six equal square sides.
  2. noun The product obtained by taking a number or quantity three times as a factor; as, 4x4=16, and 16x4=64, the cube of 4. Cube ore (Min.), pharmacosiderite. It commonly crystallizes in cubes of a green color.
  3. verb To raise to the third power; to obtain the cube of.

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

Sanskrit

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

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