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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marble

UK /ˈmɑː.bəl/ · US /ˈmɑɹ.bəl/ noun, verb, adjective, proper noun

Forms marbles marbling marbled

  1. noun (uncountable, petrology) A metamorphic rock of crystalline limestone.
  2. noun (countable, games) A small ball used in games, originally of marble but now usually of glass or ceramic.
  3. noun (in the plural, archaeology) Statues made from marble. “The Elgin Marbles were originally part of the temple of the Parthenon.”
  4. noun The marbling in meat. “The marble is graded using the Australian system.”
  5. verb (transitive) To cause (something to have) the streaked or swirled appearance of certain types of marble, for example by mixing viscous ingredients incompletely, or by applying paint or other colorants unevenly.
  6. verb (intransitive) To get or have the streaked or swirled appearance of certain types of marble, for example due to the incomplete mixing of viscous ingredients, or the uneven application of paint or other colorants.
  7. verb (transitive) To cause meat, usually beef, pork, or lamb, to be interlaced with fat so that its appearance resembles that of marble.
  8. verb (intransitive, of meat, especially beef) To become interlaced with fat; (of fat) to interlace through meat.
  9. verb (by extension, figurative) To lace or be laced throughout.
  10. adjective Made of, or resembling, marble. “a marble mantel”
  11. adjective (figurative) Cold; hard; unfeeling. “a marble heart”
  12. proper noun A surname.
  13. proper noun A statutory town in Gunnison County, Colorado.

Synonyms

marbleize

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English marble, marbre; from Anglo-Norman and Old French marbre, from Latin marmor, from Ancient Greek μάρμαρος (mármaros), perhaps related to μαρμάρεος (marmáreos, “gleaming”). The forms from French displaced Old English marma, which had previously been borrowed from Latin.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A massive, compact limestone; a variety of calcite, capable of being polished and used for architectural and ornamental purposes.
  2. noun A thing made of, or resembling, marble, as a work of art, or record, in marble; or, in the plural, a collection of such works; as, the Arundel or Arundelian marbles; the Elgin marbles.
  3. adjective Made of, or resembling, marble; as, a marble mantel; marble paper.
  4. adjective Cold; hard; unfeeling; as, a marble breast or heart.

Etymology [OE. marbel, marbre, F. marbre, L. marmor, fr. Gr. Marmoreal.]

Etymology [Cf. F. marbrer. See Marble, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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