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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id

/ɪd/ noun, verb

Forms ids ID's IDing ID'ing IDed ID'ed ID'd

  1. noun (psychoanalysis) The unconscious impulsive component of the personality in the Freudian psychoanalytic model.
  2. noun (computing) Identifier.
  3. noun (radio, television) An ident.
  4. verb (transitive) To identify (an object, etc.). “Police have been unable to ID the body found in the river.”
  5. verb (transitive) To request to see a person’s identification for proof of identity or age. “The bartender will have to ID you before serving you a drink.”
  6. verb (intransitive) To identify (as something) “I have one black grandfather, but I don't ID as mixed race”

Synonyms

lizard brain reptilian brain MR Idaho Gem State I.D.

Antonyms

OD

Etymology

From New Latin id (“it”), chosen by Freud’s translator as a translation of his use of German Es (“it”) as a noun for this concept from the pronoun es (“it”).

Abbreviation of identifier.

From Swedish id.

Abbreviation of idem, from Latin idem (“same”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A small fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Leuciscus idus or Idus idus) of Europe. A domesticated variety, colored like the goldfish, is called orfe in Germany.

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