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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facet

/ˈfæs.ɪt/ noun, verb

Forms facets faceting facetting faceted facetted facette

  1. noun Any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem. “This facet of the diamond was masterfully cut to enhance its value.”
  2. noun (figurative) One among many similar or related, yet still distinct things. “The child's learning disability was only one facet of the problems contributing to his delinquency.”
  3. noun One of a series of things, such as steps in a project. “We had just about completed the research facet of the project when the order came to cancel it.”
  4. noun (anatomy) One member of a compound eye, as found in insects and crustaceans.
  5. noun (anatomy) A smooth circumscribed surface. “the articular facet of a bone”
  6. noun (anatomy) Any of the small joints at each segment of the spine that provide stability and help guide motion
  7. noun (architecture) The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column; a fillet.
  8. noun (mathematics) A face of codimension 1 of a polytope.
  9. verb To cut a facet into a gemstone.

Synonyms

aspect

Etymology

F. facette, dim. of face face. See Face.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A little face; a small, plane surface; as, the facets of a diamond. [Written also facette.]
  2. noun A smooth circumscribed surface; as, the articular facet of a bone.
  3. verb To cut facets or small faces upon; as, to facet a diamond.

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

Sanskrit

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