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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invoice

/ˈɪnˌvɔɪs/ noun, verb

Forms invoices invoicing invoiced

  1. noun A bill; a commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer indicating the products, quantities and agreed prices for products or services that the seller has already provided the buyer with. An invoice indicates that, unless paid in advance, payment is due by the buyer to the seller, according to the agreed terms. “I've already rendered the invoices for payment.”
  2. noun The lot or set of goods as shipped or received. “The merchant receives a large invoice of goods.”
  3. noun (generally of a vehicle) The price which a seller or dealer pays the manufacturer for goods to be sold.
  4. noun (Taiwan) A kind of receipt that serves as a tax document and sometimes also as a lottery ticket.
  5. verb (transitive) To bill; to issue an invoice to. “I will invoice my supplier tomorrow.”
  6. verb (transitive) To make an invoice for (goods or services).

Synonyms

shipment bill account

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French envois pl, plural of envoi, from the verb envoyer (“to send”). See also envoy.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A written account of the particulars of merchandise shipped or sent to a purchaser, consignee, factor, etc., with the value or prices and charges annexed. Wharton.
  2. noun The lot or set of goods as shipped or received; as, the merchant receives a large invoice of goods.
  3. verb To make a written list or account of, as goods to be sent to a consignee; to insert in a priced list; to write or enter in an invoice.

Etymology [F. envois things sent, goods forwarded, pl. of envoi a sending or things sent, fr. envoyer to send; cf. F. lettre d'envoi letter of advice of goods forwarded. See Envoy.]

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