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

digit

/ˈdɪd͡ʒɪt/ noun, verb

Forms digits digiting digited

  1. noun (mathematics) A position in a sequence of numerals representing a place value in a positional number system. “The base-10 number 123.4 has four digits: the hundreds digit is 1, the tens digit is 2, the units digit is 3, and the tenths digit is 4.”
  2. noun (mathematics) A distinct symbol representing a natural number in a positional number system. “Hexadecimal numeration (Base sixteen) includes the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 but also A (=10 decimal), B, C, D, E, and F. Sixteen itself is written as the two-digit number 10.”
  3. noun (units of measure, astronomy) ¹⁄₁₂ the apparent diameter of the sun or moon, (chiefly) as a measure of the totality of an eclipse. “A six-digit eclipse covers half the lunar surface.”
  4. noun (historical units of measure) A unit of length notionally based upon the width of an adult human finger, standardized differently in various places and times, (especially) the English digit of ¹⁄₁₆ foot, now equivalent to about 1.9 cm.
  5. noun (units of measure, obsolete) Synonym of inch.
  6. noun (anatomy) A narrow extremity of the human hand or foot: a finger, thumb, or toe.
  7. noun (zoology) Similar or similar-looking structures in other animals.
  8. noun (geometry, rare, obsolete) Synonym of degree: ¹⁄₃₆₀ of a circle.
  9. verb (archaic, transitive) To point at or point out with the finger.

Synonyms

place figure finger fingerbreadth fingersbreadth inch degree manicule finger's breadth dactyl

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English digit, borrowed from Latin digitus. Doublet of digitus and dedo.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One of the terminal divisions of a limb appendage; a finger or toe. The ruminants have the "cloven foot," i. e., two hoofed digits on each foot. Owen.
  2. noun A finger's breadth, commonly estimated to be three fourths of an inch.
  3. verb To point at or out with the finger. [R.]

Etymology [L. digitus finger; prob. akin to Gr. toe. Cf. Dactyl.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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