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

mechanical

UK /məˈkænɪkəl/ · US /məˈkænəkəl/ adjective, noun

Forms mechanicals

  1. adjective (now rare) Characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar.
  2. adjective Related to mechanics (the branch of physics that deals with forces acting on matter). “mechanical engineering”
  3. adjective Related to mechanics (the design and construction of machines). “mechanical dictionary”
  4. adjective Done by machine. “mechanical task”
  5. adjective Using mechanics (the design and construction of machines): being a machine. “mechanical arm”
  6. adjective (figurative) As if performed by a machine: lifeless, mindless, thoughtless, automatic. “a mechanical reply to a question”
  7. adjective (of a person) Acting as if one were a machine: lifeless or mindless. “The pianist was too mechanical.”
  8. adjective (informal) Handy with machines. “Why don't you ask Joe to fix it? He's very mechanical.”
  9. noun (advertising) Manually created layout of artwork that is camera ready for photographic reproduction.
  10. noun One who does manual labor, especially one who is similar to Shakespeare's rude mechanicals.
  11. noun (science fiction) A robot or mechanical creature.
  12. noun (engineering) A mechanical engineer.
  13. noun (cycling) An instance of equipment failure.
  14. noun (music) A stop on an organ that is operated by a hand or foot control rather than having to be manually set up in advance.
  15. noun (archaic) A machine that performs a job typically accomplished using an animal or manual labor.

Synonyms

pasteup mechanically skillful

Antonyms

nonmechanical

Etymology

From Middle English mechanical, mechanicalle, mechanycalle, equivalent to mechanic + -al.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Pertaining to, governed by, or in accordance with, mechanics, or the laws of motion; pertaining to the quantitative relations of force and matter, as distinguished from mental, vital, chemical, etc.; as, mechanical principles; a mechanical theory; mechanical deposits.
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to a machine or to machinery or tools; made or formed by a machine or with tools; as, mechanical precision; mechanical products.
  3. noun A mechanic. [Obs.] Shak.

Etymology [From Mechanic, a.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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