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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electricity

UK /ˌiːlɛkˈtɹɪsɪti/ · US /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɪsɪti/ noun

Forms electricities

  1. noun Originally, a property of amber and certain other nonconducting substances to attract lightweight material when rubbed, or the cause of this property; now understood to be a phenomenon caused by the distribution and movement of charged subatomic particles and their interaction with the electromagnetic field.
  2. noun (physics) The study of electrical phenomena; the branch of science dealing with such phenomena. “He took up the job of studying electricity in college.”
  3. noun A feeling of excitement; a thrill. “Opening night for the new production had an electricity unlike other openings.”
  4. noun Electrical power, as supplied by power stations or generators. “This heater draws more than a thousand watts of electricity.”
  5. noun Electrical energy, as supplied by power stations or generators. “Last year this portion of the grid consumed more than a thousand megawatt-hours of electricity.”
  6. noun (business, often attributive) The supply of electricity, as a utility. “Electricity bosses set to make record profits.”

Synonyms

electrical energy

Etymology

Cf. F. électricité. See Electric.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A power in nature, a manifestation of energy, exhibiting itself when in disturbed equilibrium or in activity by a circuit movement, the fact of direction in which involves polarity, or opposition of properties in opposite directions; also, by attraction for many substances, by a law involving attraction between surfaces of unlike polarity, and repulsion between those of like; by exhibiting accumulated polar tension when the circuit is broken; and by producing heat, light, concussion, and often chemical changes when the circuit passes between the poles or through any imperfectly conducting subs
  2. noun The science which unfolds the phenomena and laws of electricity; electrical science.

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