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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kino

/ˈkiːnəʊ/ noun, adjective

Forms kinos

  1. noun A botanical gum produced by various trees and other plants, particularly bloodwood species of eucalypts (Angophora, Corymbia, Eucalyptus), Butea, and Pterocarpus, used in tanning and dyeing and as an astringent in medicine.
  2. noun (Internet slang, 4chan slang) Especially good or sophisticated cinema. “Man, I hate Marvel movies, but Scorsese, now that's some real kino.”
  3. adjective (Internet slang, 4chan slang) Grand, cinematic, especially in regards to cinema or other cultural media. “This game is absolutely kino.”
  4. noun (seduction community) Physical contact with another person, touch.

Synonyms

gum kino kino gum Pterocarpus marsupium

Etymology

18th century. Perhaps borrowed from Mandingo cano, or from a language of the East Indies.

From Russian кино́ (kinó, “movie; cinema”), via Kino-Eye and Dziga Vertov's identification of his film Man with a Movie Camera as "ABSOLUTE KINOGRAPHY".

Coined by Ross Jeffries, from kinesthesia.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The dark red dried juice of certain plants, used variously in tanning, in dyeing, and as an astringent in medicine.

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