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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

magazine

/ˌmæɡəˈziːn/ noun

Forms magazines

  1. noun A nonacademic, periodical publication which consists of articles by multiple writers on some broad topic or theme.
  2. noun (broadcasting) A radio or television show where each episode comprises a variety of features or segments, akin to the format of a print magazine.
  3. noun (military) An ammunition storehouse.
  4. noun (nautical) The portion of a warship where munitions are stored. “The cruiser blew up when a shell hit its magazine.”
  5. noun A chamber in or attachable to a firearm enabling multiple rounds of ammunition to be fed into the firearm.
  6. noun A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery, camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus.
  7. noun (archaic) A country or district especially rich in natural products.
  8. noun (archaic) A city viewed as a marketing center.

Synonyms

powder magazine mag magazine publisher cartridge powder store cartridge holder cartridge clip clip

Etymology

From Middle English magasyne, from Middle French magasin (“warehouse, store”), from Italian magazzino (“storehouse”), ultimately from Arabic مَخَازِن pl (maḵāzin), plural of مَخْزَن (maḵzan, “storeroom, storehouse”), noun of place from خَزَنَ (ḵazana, “to store, to stock, to lay up”). First attested in the 1580s.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc. "Armories and magazines." Milton.
  2. noun The building or room in which the supply of powder is kept in a fortification or a ship.
  3. verb To store in, or as in, a magazine; to store up for use.
  4. verb A camera in which a number of plates can be exposed without reloading.

Etymology [F. magasin, It. magazzino, or Sp. magacen, almagacen; all fr. Ar. makhzan, almakhzan, a storehouse, granary, or cellar.]

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

Sanskrit

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