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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ocular

UK /ˈɒk.jə.lə/ · US /ˈɑ.kjə.lɚ/ adjective, noun

Forms oculars

  1. adjective Of, or relating to the eye, or the sense of sight “The medication may have adverse ocular side effects.”
  2. adjective Resembling the eye. “ocular markings on the wings of a butterfly”
  3. adjective Seen by, or seeing with, the eye; visual.
  4. noun The eyepiece of a microscope or other optical instrument, i.e., the optical element closest to the eye.
  5. noun Any of the scales forming the margin of a reptile's eye.

Synonyms

eyepiece optic optical opthalmic visual

Antonyms

objective

Etymology

Derived from the Latin oculāris (“of the eye”), from oculus (“eye”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Depending on, or perceived by, the eye; received by actual sight; personally seeing or having seen; as, ocular proof. Shak.
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to the eye; optic.
  3. noun The eyepiece of an optical instrument, as of a telescope or microscope.

Etymology [L. ocularis, ocularius, fr. oculus the eye: cf.F. oculaire. See Eye, and cf. Antler, Inveigle.]

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

Sanskrit

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