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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flick

/flɪk/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms flicks flicking flicked

  1. noun A short, quick movement, especially a brush, sweep, or flip. “He removed the speck of dust with a flick of his finger.”
  2. noun (informal) A motion picture, movie, film; (in plural, usually preceded by "the") movie theater, cinema. “My all-time favorite flick is "Gone with the Wind."”
  3. noun (fencing) A cut that lands with the point, often involving a whip of the foible of the blade to strike at a concealed target.
  4. noun (tennis) A powerful underarm volley shot.
  5. noun The act of pressing a place on a touch screen device.
  6. noun A flitch. “a flick of bacon”
  7. noun A unit of time, equal to 1/705,600,000 of a second.
  8. noun (dated, slang) A chap or fellow; sometimes as a friendly term of address.
  9. verb To move or hit (something) with a short, quick motion. “flick one's hair”
  10. verb To pass by rapidly, so as not to be perceived clearly.
  11. proper noun A diminutive of the female given name Felicity.
  12. proper noun A diminutive of the female given name Felicia. “Felicia Jane "Flick" Beatrix Drummond is a British Conservative Party politician.”

Synonyms

fillip the picture flit movie film picture moving picture moving-picture show motion picture motion-picture show picture show pic flicker flip thumb riffle leaf riff jerk ruffle snap click

Etymology

From Middle English flykke (“light blow or stroke”). Later uses apparently interpreted as a back-formation from flicker.
The use of flick to mean a film or movie derives from the fact that early films had a low frame rate, thus causing the film to "flick" rapidly when projected onto a screen.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To whip lightly or with a quick jerk; to flap; as, to flick a horse; to flick the dirt from boots. Thackeray.
  2. noun A flitch; as, a flick of bacon.

Etymology [Cf. Flicker.]

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