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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cue

UK /kjuː/ · US /kju/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms cues cueing cuing cued kue kew que

  1. noun The name of the Latin script letter Q/q.
  2. noun (obsolete, UK, universities) A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing and noted with a q (for Latin quadrāns (“farthing”)) in the buttery books.
  3. noun An action or event that is a signal for somebody to do something.
  4. noun The last words of a play actor's speech, serving as an intimation for the next actor to speak; any word or words which serve to remind an actor to speak or to do something; a catchword.
  5. noun (electronics, computing) A marker or signal that triggers something, such as the start of an audio recording.
  6. noun A hint or intimation.
  7. noun (obsolete) Humour; temper of mind.
  8. verb To give someone a cue signal. “Cue the cameraman, and action!”
  9. verb (by extension) To spark or provoke. “These techniques can cue an open dialogue with your interviewer.”
  10. noun (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A straight tapering stick used to hit the balls in various games.
  11. noun (obsolete) The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue.
  12. verb (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To take aim on the cue ball with the cue and hit it.
  13. verb To form into a cue; to braid; to twist.
  14. proper noun A surname.
  15. proper noun A small town and local government area (the Shire of Cue) in the Mid West region, Western Australia, named after Tom Cue.

Synonyms

cue up clue clew discriminative stimulus cue stick pool cue pool stick prompt remind

Etymology

From Middle English cu (used for half a farthing, from q as an abbreviation for Latin quadrāns (“quarter of an as”)), from Latin cū, kū. Compare French ku.

From earlier qu, abbreviation of Latin quandō (“when”), marked on actor's play copy where they were to begin.

Variant of queue, from French queue (“tail”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue.
  2. noun The last words of a play actor's speech, serving as an intimation for the next succeeding player to speak; any word or words which serve to remind a player to speak or to do something; a catchword.
  3. verb To form into a cue; to braid; to twist.
  4. noun A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing. [Obs.]

Etymology [OF. coue, coe, F. queue, fr. L. coda, cauda, tail. Cf. Caudal, Coward, Queue.]

Etymology [From q, an abbreviation for quadrans a farthing.]

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