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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library

UK /ˈlaɪ.bɹi/ · US /ˈlaɪˌbɹɛɹ.i/ noun

Forms libraries

  1. noun An institution which holds books and/or other forms of media for use by the public or qualified people often lending them out, as well as providing various other services for its users. “She went to exchange her books at her local library.”
  2. noun (by extension) Any institution that lends out its goods for use by the public or a community. “You can check out a bandsaw from the tool library.”
  3. noun A collection of books or other forms of stored information.
  4. noun A collection of information or reference materials not in book form. “She has the most impressive record library I've ever seen.”
  5. noun A room dedicated to storing books.
  6. noun (programming) A collection of software routines that provide functionality to be incorporated into or used by a computer program.
  7. noun (genetics) A collection of DNA material from a single organism or relative to a single disease.
  8. noun (card games, Magic: The Gathering) The deck or draw pile.

Synonyms

bookhouse bibliotheca bibliotheque library file depository library program library subroutine library

Etymology

From Middle English librarie, from Anglo-Norman librarie, from Old French librairie, from Latin librarium (“bookcase, chest for books”), from librarius (“concerning books”), from liber (“the inner bark of trees; paper, parchment, book”), probably derived from a Proto-Indo-European base *leub(ʰ)- (“to strip, to peel”). Displaced native Middle English bochous, bokhus (literally “book house”), from Old English bōchūs (compare bookhouse).
Romance cognates often mean “bookshop” instead: French librairie, Italian libreria, Spanish librería, Romanian librărie and Portuguese livraria. This is a relatively recent innovation (16th century in French), which ended up displacing the earlier sense.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A considerable collection of books kept for use, and not as merchandise; as, a private library; a public library.
  2. noun A building or apartment appropriated for holding such a collection of books. Holland.

Etymology [OE. librairie, F. librairie bookseller's shop, book trade, formerly, a library, fr. libraire bookseller, L. librarius, from liber book; cf. libraria bookseller's shop, librarium bookcase, It. libreria. See Libel.]

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “library” (best matches first).