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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inventory

UK /ˈɪn.vən.tɹi/ · US /ˈɪn.vənˌtɔɹ.i/ noun, verb

Forms inventories inventorying inventoried

  1. noun (operations) The stock of an item on hand at a particular location or business. “Due to an undersized inventory at the Boston outlet, customers had to travel to Providence to find the item.”
  2. noun (operations) A detailed list of all of the items on hand. “The inventory included several items that one wouldn't normally think to find at a cheese shop.”
  3. noun (operations) The process of producing or updating such a list. “This month's inventory took nearly three days.”
  4. noun A space containing the items available to a character, especially in a video game, for immediate use. “You can't get through the underground tunnel if there are more than three items in your inventory.”
  5. noun (linguistics, especially phonology) The total set of a (specified) linguistic feature (within a language etc.) “Germanic languages have a marked tendency towards large vocalic inventories.”
  6. verb (transitive, operations) To take stock of the resources or items on hand; to produce an inventory. “The main job of the night shift was to inventory the store, and restock when necessary.”

Synonyms

index inventorize take inventory take stock stock list stock armory armoury inventorying stocktaking stock-taking stock-take

Etymology

From Middle English inventorie, from Medieval Latin inventōrium, alteration of Late Latin inventārium, from Latin inveniō (“to find out”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An account, catalogue, or schedule, made by an executor or administrator, of all the goods and chattels, and sometimes of the real estate, of a deceased person; a list of the property of which a person or estate is found to be possessed; hence, an itemized list of goods or valuables, with their estimated worth; specifically, the annual account of stock taken in any business.
  2. verb To make an inventory of; to make a list, catalogue, or schedule of; to insert or register in an account of goods; as, a merchant inventories his stock.

Etymology [L. inventarium: cf. LL. inventorium, F. inventaire, OF. also inventoire. See Invent.]

Etymology [Cf. F. inventorier.]

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