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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means

UK /miːnz/ · US /minz/ noun, proper noun

Also a form of mean

Forms Meanses

  1. noun An instrument or condition to achieve a result. “She treated him as a means to an end.”
  2. noun (uncountable) Financial resources; wealth. “a person of means; independent means”
  3. noun Substantial wealth. “She is a woman of means.”
  4. proper noun A surname.
  5. proper noun An unincorporated community in Menifee County, Kentucky, United States.

Synonyms

wherewithal agency way substance

Etymology

From mean (“method or course of action used to achieve some result”). Compare French moyens, German Mittel.

* Reduced form of McMeans, a surname of Irish origin.
* Habitational surname from the villages of East and West Meon, in Hampshire.
* A nickname from Middle English mene (“inferior in rank”), which is from Old English ġemǣne (“common, general”), or Middle English mene (“moderate in behaviour”), which is from Old French mëen, mean.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “means”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

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

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