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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arc

UK /ɑːk/ · US /ɑɹk/ noun, verb, proper noun, adjective

Forms arcs arcing arcking arced arcked

  1. noun (astronomy) That part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as it moves above and below the horizon.
  2. noun (geometry) A continuous part of the circumference of a circle (circular arc) or of another curve.
  3. noun A curve, in general. “Swing it from side to side in a high arc overhead.”
  4. noun A band contained within parallel curves, or something of that shape.
  5. noun (electrics) A flow of current across an insulating medium; especially a hot, luminous discharge either between two electrodes or as lightning.
  6. noun (by extension, Internet slang) A period or phase in a person's life. “I'm hitting the gym three times a week or more at the moment. I'm in my gym bro arc.”
  7. noun (mathematics) A continuous mapping from a real interval (typically [0, 1]) into a space.
  8. noun (graph theory) A directed edge.
  9. verb (ambitransitive) To move following a curved path.
  10. verb (transitive) To shape into an arc; to hold in the form of an arc.
  11. verb (intransitive) To form an electrical arc.
  12. proper noun (nautical, military) The Colombian Navy (Armada de la República de Colombia).
  13. adjective (nautical, military, initialism) A ship's prefix for warships of the navy of Colombia.
  14. proper noun (historical) A suggested location where the historical figure Joan of Arc, or her father, were from.

Synonyms

curve swoop arrow directed edge circular arc circle segment discharge spark electric arc electric discharge bow arch

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English ark, from Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos (“bow, arrow”). Doublet of arch, arco, and arrow.

Borrowed from Spanish ARC.

An abbreviation.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A portion of a curved line; as, the arc of a circle or of an ellipse.
  2. noun A curvature in the shape of a circular arc or an arch; as, the colored arc (the rainbow); the arc of Hadley's quadrant.

Etymology [F. arc, L. arcus bow, arc. See Arch, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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