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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loading

UK /ˈləʊ.dɪŋ/ · US /ˈloʊ.dɪŋ/ noun

Also a form of load

Forms loadings

  1. noun (countable, uncountable) The process by which something is loaded. “The loading of hazardous cargoes is not permitted.”
  2. noun (countable) A load, especially in the engineering and electrical engineering senses of force exerted, or electrical current or power supplied. “I need to recheck the loadings on the external walls.”
  3. noun (Australia, industrial relations, countable) An increased rate of pay given to an employee in order to compensate for specified non-standard working conditions, or a lack of specific other benefits. For example, an employee paid a casual loading is paid more than an equivalent full-time or part-time employee's rate, to compensate for a lack of benefits such as sick leave or annual leave. “The position advertised a $40 per hour rate, inclusive of the casual loading.”
  4. noun A weighting or bias.

Synonyms

load burden cargo lading freight payload shipment consignment

Antonyms

unloading

Etymology

By surface analysis, load + -ing.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of putting a load on or into.
  2. noun A load; cargo; burden. Shak.

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