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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cubic

UK /ˈkjuː.bɪk/ · US /ˈkju.bɪk/ adjective, noun

Forms cubics cubick

  1. adjective (geometry) Used in the names of units of volume formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself twice. “cubic foot”
  2. adjective (mathematics) Relating to polynomials of the form ax³+bx²+cx+d.
  3. adjective (crystallography) Having three equal axes and all angles 90°. “cubic cleavage”
  4. noun (algebraic geometry) A cubic curve.

Synonyms

isometric monometric cubic curve three-dimensional

Antonyms

linear planar

Etymology

From Middle French cubique, equivalent to cube + -ic.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having the form or properties of a cube; contained, or capable of being contained, in a cube.
  2. adjective Isometric or monometric; as, cubic cleavage. See Crystallization. Cubic equation, an equation in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a cube.
  3. noun A curve of the third degree. Circular cubic. See under Circular.

Etymology [L. cubicus, Gr. cubique. See Cube.]

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

Sanskrit

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