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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garbage

UK /ˈɡɑː.bɪd͡ʒ/ · US /ˈɡɑɹ.bɪd͡ʒ/ noun, verb, adjective

Forms garbages garbaging garbaged garbidge

  1. noun Food waste material of any kind.
  2. noun (England, dialectal, Cumbria, Lancashire, archaic) Foul, rotten or unripe vegetable matter.
  3. noun Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind. “The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.”
  4. noun Specifically, waste material destined not to be reclaimed through recycling, composting, etc. “Compost goes in the brown bin and is picked up Monday, recycling goes in blue bags and is picked up Wednesday, and garbage goes in black bags and is picked up Thursday.”
  5. noun A place or receptacle for waste material. “He threw the newspaper into the garbage.”
  6. noun Nonsense; gibberish. “This machine translation is garbage.”
  7. noun Something or someone worthless.
  8. noun (obsolete) The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.
  9. verb (transitive, chiefly US, Canada, obsolete) to eviscerate
  10. adjective (informal) bad, crap, shitty

Synonyms

gubbins leftovers orts scraps junk refuse rubbish trash waste cultch crap debris dreck drek gash litter pelf piece of crap piece of garbage piece of shit food waste drivel

Antonyms

recyclable asset catch find prize resource treasure valuable

Etymology

From late Middle English garbage (“the offal of a fowl, giblets, kitchen waste”, originally “refuse, what is purged away”), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French garber (“to refine, make neat or clean”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *garwijan (“to make ready”).
Akin to Old High German garawan (“to prepare, make ready”), Old English ġearwian (“to make ready, adorn”). More at garb, yare, gear

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Offal, as the bowels of an animal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome. Grainger.
  2. verb To strip of the bowels; to clean. "Pilchards . . . are garbaged." Holland.

Etymology [OE. also garbash, perh. orig., that which is purged or cleansed away; cf. OF. garber to make fine, neat, OHG. garawan to make ready, prepare, akin to E. garb dress; or perh. for garbleage, fr. garble; or cf. OF. garbage tax on sheaves, E. garb sheaf.]

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