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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envelope

UK /ˈɛnvə(ˌ)ləʊp/ · US /ˈɛnvə(ˌ)loʊp/ noun, verb

Also a form of envelop

Forms envelopes enveloping enveloped

  1. noun A paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.
  2. noun Something that envelops; a wrapping.
  3. noun A bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship; fabric that encloses the gas-bags of an airship.
  4. noun (geometry) A mathematical curve, surface, or higher-dimensional object that is the tangent to a given family of lines, curves, surfaces, or higher-dimensional objects.
  5. noun (electronics) A curve that bounds another curve or set of curves, as the modulation envelope of an amplitude-modulated carrier wave in electronics.
  6. noun (music) The shape of a sound, which may be controlled by a synthesizer or sampler.
  7. noun (networking) The information used for routing a message that is transmitted with the message but not part of its contents.
  8. noun (biology) An enclosing structure or cover, such as a membrane; a space between two membranes
  9. verb (transitive, rare) To put (something) in an envelope.

Synonyms

wrapper gasbag header

Etymology

From French enveloppe. The engineering sense is derived from flight envelope. The verb is from the noun.

See envelop.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun That which envelops, wraps up, encases, or surrounds; a wrapper; an inclosing cover; esp., the cover or wrapper of a document, as of a letter.
  2. noun The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; --called also coma.

Etymology [F. enveloppe.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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