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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

fibre

/ˈfaɪ.bə(ɹ)/ noun

Also a form of fiber

Forms fibres fiber

  1. noun (countable) A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread. “The microscope showed several different fibres stuck to the sole of the shoe.”
  2. noun (uncountable) Material in the form of fibres. “The cloth was made from strange, somewhat rough fibre.”
  3. noun Dietary fibre. “Fresh vegetables are a good source of fibre.”
  4. noun Moral strength and resolve. “The ordeal was a test of everyone’s fibre.”
  5. noun (mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map. “Under this map, any two values in the fibre of a given point on the circle differ by 2π.”
  6. noun (category theory) Said to be of a morphism over a global element: The pullback of the said morphism along the said global element.
  7. noun (computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
  8. noun (cytology) A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.

Synonyms

fiber character vulcanized fiber

Etymology

From French fibre, from Old French, from Latin fibra.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle.
  2. noun Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one of the slender rootlets of a plant.

Etymology [F. fibre, L. fibra.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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