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

current

/ˈkʌɹənt/ noun, adjective, proper noun

Also a form of currant

Forms currents currenter currentest

  1. noun The generally unidirectional movement of a gas or fluid.
  2. noun The part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction, especially (oceanography) ellipsis of ocean current.
  3. noun (by extension, South Asia) electricity, power in general.
  4. noun A tendency or a course of events.
  5. adjective Existing or occurring at the moment. “current events”
  6. adjective Generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment; having currency. “current affairs”
  7. adjective (South Asia) Electric; of or relating to electricity. “current bill”
  8. adjective (obsolete) Running or moving rapidly.
  9. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

flow stream tendency present contemporary hodiern modern de nos jours present-day fashionable prevailing prevalent rife up-to-date a la mode/à la mode all the rage chic sassy cool dapper electric current

Antonyms

future past out-of-date unfashionable basic cheugy cringe cringey cringeworthy dated démodé elderly noncurrent

Etymology

From Middle English curraunt, borrowed from Old French curant (French courant), present participle of courre (“to run”), from Latin currere (“to run”) (present participle currens). Doublet of courant.

Probably a variant of Currant.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Running or moving rapidly. [Archaic]
  2. adjective Now passing, as time; as, the current month.
  3. noun A flowing or passing; onward motion. Hence: A body of fluid moving continuously in a certain direction; a stream; esp., the swiftest part of it; as, a current of water or of air; that which resembles a stream in motion; as, a current of electricity.
  4. noun General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc. Current meter, an instrument for measuring the velocity, force, etc., of currents.

Etymology [OE. currant, OF. curant, corant, p. pr. of curre, corre, F. courre, courir, to run, from L. currere; perh. akin to E. horse. Cf. Course, Concur, Courant, Coranto.]

Etymology [Cf. F. courant. See Current, a.]

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

Sanskrit

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