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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eyeball

UK /ˈaɪ.bɔːl/ · US /ˈaɪ.bɔl/ noun, verb

Forms eyeballs eyeballing eyeballed eye-ball

  1. noun The ball of the eye. “You'll change your mind about not bothering with safety glasses once you've injured your eyeball. That's called closing the barn door after the horse gets out.”
  2. noun An instance of eyeballing something. “Give this report an eyeball, will you please?”
  3. noun (informal) Surveillance.
  4. noun (marketing, in the plural) A readership or viewership. “We need compelling content for the new Web site so we can attract more eyeballs.”
  5. noun (CB radio, slang) A face-to-face meeting. “We had an eyeball last year.”
  6. noun (Caribbean) A favourite or pet; the apple of someone's eye.
  7. verb (transitive, informal) To gauge, estimate or judge by eye, rather than measuring precisely; to look or glance at. “A good cook can often just eyeball the correct quantities of ingredients.”
  8. verb (transitive, informal) To stare at intently. “Are you eyeballing my girl?”
  9. verb (intransitive) To roll one's eyes.

Synonyms

globe globus globus oculi eyeglobe bulbus oculi bulbus eye eye-apple eye up orb

Etymology

From eye + ball. Compare Middle English balle off the eye, balle of þe eyȝe (“eyeball”, literally “ball of the eye”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The ball or globe of the eye.

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

Sanskrit

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