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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hybrid

/ˈhaɪ.bɹɪd/ noun, adjective

Forms hybrids

  1. noun (biology) Offspring resulting from cross-breeding different entities, e.g. two different species or two purebred parent strains.
  2. noun Something of mixed origin or composition; often, a tool or technology that combines the benefits of formerly separate tools or technologies.
  3. noun A hybrid vehicle, especially a car; a vehicle that runs on both fuel (gasoline or diesel) and electricity (battery or energy from the sun).
  4. noun (computing) A computer that is part analog computer and part digital computer.
  5. noun (cycling) A bicycle that is a compromise between a road bike and a mountain bike.
  6. noun (electronics) An electronic circuit constructed of individual devices bonded to a substrate or PCB.
  7. noun (golf) A golf club that combines the characteristics of an iron and a wood.
  8. noun (linguistics) A word that is internally macaronic, its elements being derived from different languages.
  9. adjective Of or composed of mixed origin or composition. “a hybrid mix of jazz and punk”
  10. adjective Of a car, running on both fuel (gasoline or diesel) and electricity (battery or energy from the sun).
  11. adjective (animation) Involving both 2D and 3D animation.

Synonyms

bastard crossbreed mixing cross cross-breed melding mixling mongrel loanblend loan-blend intercrossed

Etymology

From Latin hybrida, a variant of hibrida (“a mongrel; specifically, an offspring of a tame sow and a wild boar”). Attested since 1601, but rare before c. 1850.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The offspring of the union of two distinct species; an animal or plant produced from the mixture of two species. See Mongrel.
  2. adjective Produced from the mixture of two species; as, plants of hybrid nature.

Etymology [L. hybrida, hibrida, prob. allied to Gr. over: cf. F. hybride.]

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