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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fake

/feɪ̯k/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms faker fakest fakes faking faked

  1. adjective Not real; false, fraudulent. “Which fur coat looks fake?”
  2. adjective (Of people) Insincere
  3. noun Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently. “I suspect this passport is a fake.”
  4. noun (sports) A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.
  5. noun (archaic) A trick; a swindle.
  6. noun An impostor.
  7. verb (transitive) To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
  8. verb (transitive) To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate. “to fake a marriage”
  9. verb (archaic) To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
  10. verb (archaic) To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is.
  11. verb (music, ambitransitive) To improvise, in jazz.
  12. noun (nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
  13. verb (nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.

Synonyms

artificial bad bogus bollocks concocted counterfeit ersatz fabricated false falsified faux feigned forged fraudulent illegitimate ingenuine mock phoney phony-baloney phony sham postiche imposter impostor pretender faker fraud shammer pseudo pseud

Antonyms

authentic genuine real

Etymology

The origin is not known with certainty, although first attested in 1775 C.E. in British criminals' slang. It is probably from feak, feague (“to give a better appearance through artificial means, spruce up, embellish”), itself from German Low German fegen, from Middle Low German vēgen, from Old Saxon fegōn, from Proto-West Germanic *fegōn (“to clean up, polish”).
Akin to Dutch veeg (“a swipe”), Dutch vegen (“to sweep, wipe”); German fegen (“to sweep, to polish”). Compare also Old English fācn (“deceit, fraud”). Perhaps related also to Old Norse fjúka (“to fade, vanquish, disappear”), Old Norse feikn (“strange, scary, unnatural”).

Inherited from Middle English faken (“to coil a rope”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
  2. verb To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form,, to prevent twisting when running out. Faking box, a box in which a long rope is faked; used in the life-saving service for a line attached to a shot.
  3. verb To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
  4. verb To make; to construct; to do.

Etymology [Cf. Scot. faik fold, stratum of stone, AS. fæc space, interval, G. fach compartment, partition, row, and E. fay to fit.]

Etymology [Cf. Gael. faigh to get, acquire, reach, or OD. facken to catch or gripe.]

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