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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dna

UK /ˌdiːɛnˈeɪ/ · US /ˌdiˌɛnˈeɪ/ noun, verb, proper noun, phrase

Forms dnas DNAing DNAed

  1. noun (informal, loosely) The part of a living thing that carries genetic information.
  2. noun (figuratively) The fundamental nature or values of a person, or an organization or other thing, especially when considered as innate or immutable.
  3. verb (transitive) To examine a sample of (someone's) deoxyribonucleic acid.
  4. proper noun (US, military, historical) Defense Nuclear Agency, an agency of the United States Department of Defense which existed from 1971 to 1996 and has since been reorganized as the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
  5. phrase Did not answer.
  6. phrase Did not arrive (used when someone fails to keep an appointment).
  7. phrase Did not attend.
  8. phrase Do not assume.
  9. phrase Does not apply.
  10. phrase Drugs 'n' alcohol.
  11. phrase (US, military) Do not arm (that is, do not provide with a firearm).
  12. verb (US, military) To place (someone) under a DNA (do not arm) order because of mental illness.

Synonyms

thread of life deoxyribonucleic acid desoxyribonucleic acid

Etymology

The noun is an initialism of deoxyribonucleic acid. The verb is derived from the noun.

An initialism of the various terms listed below. The verb sense is derived from noun etymology 2, phrase sense 7.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “dna”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details