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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art

UK /ɑːt/ · US /ɑɹt/ noun, proper noun

Also a form of be ert

Forms arts

  1. noun (uncountable) The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the senses and emotions, usually specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium. “There is a debate as to whether graffiti is art or vandalism.”
  2. noun (uncountable) The creative and emotional expression of mental imagery, such as visual, auditory, social, etc.
  3. noun (countable) Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus. “She's mastered the art of programming.”
  4. noun (uncountable) The study and the product of these processes. “He's at university to study art.”
  5. noun (uncountable) Aesthetic value. “Her photographs are nice, but there's no art in them.”
  6. noun (uncountable) Artwork. “Sotheby's regularly auctions art for millions.”
  7. noun (countable) A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature. “I'm a great supporter of the arts.”
  8. noun (countable) (often in dichotomy with science) A subject understood best through intuition rather than methodology.
  9. proper noun A diminutive of the male given name Arthur, from the Celtic languages.

Synonyms

craft fine art artistic creation artistic production artistry prowess artwork graphics nontextual matter

Antonyms

nature subsistence

Etymology

From Middle English art, from Old French art, from Latin artem, accusative of ars (“art”). Partly displaced native Old English cræft, whence Modern English craft. See also archaic English list (“art, craft, cunning, skill”).

From Middle English art, from Old English eart, second-person singular present indicative of wesan. Further etymology uncertain, see are. Cognate with Faroese ert and Icelandic ert.

Clipping.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The employment of means to accomplish some desired end; the adaptation of things in the natural world to the uses of life; the application of knowledge or power to practical purposes.
  2. noun A system of rules serving to facilitate the performance of certain actions; a system of principles and rules for attaining a desired end; method of doing well some special work; --often contradistinguished from science or speculative principles; as, the art of building or engraving; the art of war; the art of navigation.

Etymology [F. art, L. ars, artis, orig., skill in joining or fitting; prob. akin to E. arm, aristocrat, article.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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