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

generic

/dʒɪˈnɛɹ.ɪk/ adjective, noun

Forms generics generick

  1. adjective Very broad; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or groups as opposed to specific instances. “Capri pants can be a generic term for any cropped slim pants.”
  2. adjective Lacking in precision, often in an evasive fashion; vague; imprecise.
  3. adjective (pharmacology) Of a product or drug, not having a brand name; nonproprietary in design or contents; fungible with the rest of its class.
  4. adjective (taxonomy) Pertaining to genera of life instead of particular species thereof. “There are scores of generic names within the order Decapoda, which includes many sea creatures that are called shrimp.”
  5. adjective (grammar, nonstandard) Specifying neither masculine nor feminine; epicene; unisex. “Words like salesperson and firefighter are generic.”
  6. adjective (computing) Of a procedure, written so as to operate on any data type, the type required being passed as a parameter.
  7. adjective (geometry) Of a point, having coordinates that are algebraically independent over the base field.
  8. adjective Relating to genre.
  9. noun A product sold under a generic name.
  10. noun A wine that is a combination of several wines, or made from a combination of several grape varieties.
  11. noun (grammar) A term that specifies neither male nor female.
  12. noun (toponymy) The part of a toponym that identifies the feature's type.

Synonyms

broad fuzzy unbranded general classic indefinite catholic common ecumenical nonsingular nonspecific universal unparticular unsingular unspecific blend generic wine

Antonyms

specific instantial particular concrete non-generic proprietary branded gendered varietal

Etymology

From Middle French générique, from Latin genus (“genus, kind”) + -ic.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Pertaining to a genus or kind; relating to a genus, as distinct from a species, or from another genus; as, a generic description; a generic difference; a generic name.
  2. adjective Very comprehensive; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or their characteristics; --opposed to Ant: specific.

Etymology [L. genus, generis, race, kind: cf. F. générique. See Gender.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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