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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archive

UK /ˈɑːkaɪv/ · US /ˈɑɹˌkaɪv/ noun, verb

Forms archives archiving archived

  1. noun A repository or other place for storing material (such as documents and records) no longer in current use, and usually having historical value.
  2. noun The material so stored, considered as a whole. “His archive of Old High German texts is the most extensive in Britain.”
  3. noun (by extension, ecology) A natural deposit of material, regarded as a record of environmental changes over time. “peat archive    soil archive”
  4. noun (figurative) A collection, a repository.
  5. verb To place or store (something, such as a document or record) in an archive (noun sense 1.1). “I was planning on archiving the documents from 2001.”
  6. verb (computing) To transfer (less used or obsolete data, files, etc.) to a storage medium for long-term storage.

Synonyms

archivize file away

Antonyms

de-archive unarchive

Etymology

The noun is borrowed from French archive, archif, from Late Latin archīvum, archīum (“archive; room containing an archive; public record office”), from Ancient Greek ἀρχεῖον (arkheîon, “office of a magistrate; public building or office; town hall; (in the plural) archives; public records”), a noun use of the neuter form of *ἀρχεῖος (*arkheîos, “relating to an office”), from ᾰ̓ρχή (ărkhḗ, “beginning, origin; authority, sovereignty”) (from ἄρχω (árkhō, “to begin; to govern, rule”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- (“to fit; to fix; to put together”), or *h₂ergʰ- (“to begin; to command; to rule”)) + -ῐος (-ĭos, suffix meaning ‘of or relating to’ forming adjectives).
The verb is derived from the noun.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun pl.
  2. noun The place in which public records or historic documents are kept.

Etymology [F. archives, pl., L. archivum, archium, fr. Gr. Archi-, pref.]

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