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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inject

/ɪnˈd͡ʒɛkt/ verb

Forms injects injecting injected

  1. verb (transitive) To push or pump (something, especially fluids) into a cavity or passage. “The nurse injected a painkilling drug into the veins of my forearm.”
  2. verb (transitive) To introduce (something) suddenly or violently. “Punk injected a much-needed sense of urgency into the British music scene.”
  3. verb (transitive) To administer an injection to (someone or something), especially of medicine or drugs. “Now lie back while we inject you with the anesthetic.”
  4. verb (intransitive) To take or be administered something by means of injection, especially medicine or drugs. “It's been a week since I stopped injecting, and I'm still in withdrawal.”
  5. verb (transitive, computing) To introduce (code) into an existing program or its memory space, often without tight integration and sometimes through a security vulnerability.
  6. verb (obsolete, transitive) To cast or throw; used with on.
  7. verb (transitive) To introduce or add (something that is different or foreign). “inject something into orbit”

Synonyms

shoot interject come in interpose put in throw in

Etymology

From Latin iniectus, injectus, participle of iniciō, injiciō (“to throw in”), from in- + iaciō (“I throw”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To throw in; to dart in; to force in; as, to inject cold water into a condenser; to inject a medicinal liquid into a cavity of the body; to inject morphine with a hypodermic syringe.
  2. verb Fig.: To throw; to offer; to propose; to instill.

Etymology [L. injectus, p. p. of inicere, injicere, to throw in; pref. in- in + jacere to throw: cf. F. injecter. See Jet a shooting forth.]

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