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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digital

/ˈdɪd͡ʒɪtl̩/ adjective, noun

Forms digitals

  1. adjective Having to do with digits (fingers or toes); especially, performed with a finger. “digital palpation”
  2. adjective Property of representing values as discrete, often binary, numbers rather than a continuous spectrum. “digital computer”
  3. adjective Of or relating to computers or the Information Age. “Digital payment systems are replacing cash transactions.”
  4. noun (finance) A digital option.
  5. noun (uncountable) Digital equipment or technology. “He moved to digital for the first time, using a Sony camera.”
  6. noun (music) Any of the keys of a piano or similar instrument.
  7. noun (colloquial, humorous) A finger.

Synonyms

computerized electronic digitized virtual

Antonyms

nondigital undigital analog analogue continuous

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin digitālis, from digitus (“finger, toe”) + -alis (“-al”), equivalent to digit + -al. Doublet of digitalis.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or performance to the fingers, or to digits; done with the fingers; as, digital compression; digital examination.

Etymology [L. digitals.]

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