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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architecture

UK /ˈɑː.kɪˌtɛk.t͡ʃə/ · US /ˈɑɹ.kɪˌtɛk.t͡ʃɚ/ noun

Forms architectures

  1. noun The art and science of designing and managing the construction of buildings and other structures, particularly if they are well proportioned and decorated. “The architecture throughout NYC is amazing.”
  2. noun Any particular style of building design.
  3. noun Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship.
  4. noun A unifying structure.
  5. noun (computing) A family of CPUs sharing a common instruction set and having partial or full compatibility with software built on each other.
  6. noun (computing) A specific model of a microchip or CPU. “The Intel architectures have more software written for them.”
  7. noun The structure and design of a system or product. “The architecture of the company's billing system is designed to support its business goals.”

Synonyms

computer architecture

Etymology

Borrowed from French architecture, from Latin architectūra. Originally from architect, from Ancient Greek ἀρχιτέκτων (arkhitéktōn, “architect”, literally “arch builder, ext. chief builder, principal craftsman”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; --often called civil architecture.
  2. noun Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship.

Etymology [L. architectura, fr. architectus: cf. F. architecture. See Architect.]

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

Sanskrit

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