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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dime

/daɪm/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms dimes diming dimed

  1. noun (US, Canada) A coin worth one-tenth of a dollar, that is, ten cents.
  2. noun (Canada, US) A small amount of money. “She didn't spend a dime.”
  3. noun (US, Philippines, basketball) An assist.
  4. noun (slang) A playing card with the rank of ten.
  5. noun (slang) Ten dollars.
  6. noun (slang) A thousand dollars.
  7. noun (slang) A measure of illicit drugs (usually marijuana) sold in ten-dollar bags.
  8. noun (slang) A ten-year prison sentence.
  9. verb (US, slang, with "on") To inform on, to turn in to the authorities, to rat on, especially anonymously. “Somebody dimed on me and I got arrested for selling marijuana.”
  10. verb (US, slang) To operate an audio amplifier (especially an electric guitar amplifier) at level "10" (typically the highest amplification level). “I get the best-sounding sustain and smooth harmonic distortion when I run the amp dimed.”
  11. proper noun An Omotic language, spoken by fewer than 10,000 speakers in Ethiopia.

Synonyms

ten-cent piece grand dime piece drop a dime on someone dime out bewray blow the whistle clepe denounce dob drop a dime finger fink fizgig inform inform on grass on grass up lolly up name names dime bag

Etymology

From Middle English dime, from Anglo-Norman disme (“one tenth, tithe”) (modern French dîme), from Medieval Latin decima, from Latin decima (pars) (“tenth (part)”). Doublet of decim, decima, and decime.

From the use of the coin in a payphone to report a crime to the police. US payphones charged 10¢ in almost all jurisdictions until the late 1970s.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A silver coin of the United States, of the value of ten cents; the tenth of a dollar. Dime novel, a novel, commonly sensational and trashy, which is sold for a dime, or ten cents.

Etymology [F. dîme tithe, OF. disme, fr. L. decimus the tenth, fr. decem ten. See Decimal.]

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