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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network

UK /ˈnɛt.wɜːk/ · US /ˈnɛt.wɝk/ noun, verb

Forms networks networking networked

  1. noun Any interconnected group or system. “A network of roads crisscrossed the country.”
  2. noun A set of people with sociocultural connections to one another; especially, such a set consisting of occupational or business connections. “To get a job in today's economy, it is important to have a strong network.”
  3. noun (broadcasting) A group of affiliated television stations that broadcast common programs from a parent company.
  4. noun (computing, Internet) A computer network: multiple computers and other devices connected together to share information. “The copy machine is connected to the network so it can now serve as a printer.”
  5. noun (literal) A fabric or structure of fibrous elements attached to each other at regular intervals; the act or process of making such an object.
  6. verb (intransitive) To interact socially for the purpose of getting connections or personal advancement. “Many people find it worthwhile to network for jobs and information.”
  7. verb (transitive) To connect two or more computers or other computerized devices. “If we network his machine to the server, he will be able to see all the files.”
  8. verb (transitive) To interconnect a group or system.
  9. verb (transitive, broadcasting) To broadcast across an entire network of stations and affiliates at the same time.

Synonyms

web net mesh meshing meshwork electronic network

Etymology

From net + work; the nonliteral sense and its subsenses are extended from the literal sense; they are now the dominant senses. Cognate with German Netzwerk.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A fabric of threads, cords, or wires crossing each other at certain intervals, and knotted or secured at the crossings, thus leaving spaces or meshes between them.
  2. noun Any system of lines or channels interlacing or crossing like the fabric of a net; as, a network of veins; a network of railroads.

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

Sanskrit

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