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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graphic

/ˈɡɹæfɪk/ adjective, noun

Forms graphics graphick

  1. adjective Drawn, pictorial. “The design team has created a new graphic language for the promotional material of this campaign.”
  2. adjective Explicit, vivid, descriptive, often in relation to depictions of sex or violence. “We are not publishing these images because of the graphic nature of the content.”
  3. adjective Relating to or reminiscent of graphic arts.
  4. adjective (geology) Having a texture that resembles writing, commonly created by exsolution, devitrification and immiscibility processes in igneous rocks. “graphic granite”
  5. noun A drawing or picture.
  6. noun (mostly in plural) A computer-generated image as viewed on a screen forming part of a game or a film etc. “I've just played this new computer game: the graphics are amazing.”
  7. noun A moth of the subfamily Melipotini.

Synonyms

computer graphic graphical in writing lifelike pictorial vivid

Etymology

From Latin graphicus (“belonging to painting or drawing”), from Ancient Greek γραφικός (graphikós, “belonging to painting or drawing, picturesque, of or for writing; of style, lively”), from γραφή (graphḗ, “drawing, painting, writing, a writing, description, etc.”), from γράφω (gráphō, “scratch, carve”) (cognate with English carve).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to the arts of painting and drawing.
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to the art of writing.

Etymology [L. graphicus, Gr. graphique. See Graft.]

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