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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orbit

UK /ˈɔː.bɪt/ · US /ˈɔɹ.bɪt/ noun, verb

Forms orbits orbiting orbited

  1. noun (astronomy) An elliptical movement of an object about a celestial object or Lagrange point, especially a periodic elliptical revolution.
  2. noun One complete circuit round an orbited body. “The Moon's orbit around the Earth takes nearly one month to complete.”
  3. noun (uncountable) The state of moving in an orbit.
  4. noun (physics) The path of an electron around an atomic nucleus.
  5. noun (pinball) A path for the ball on the outer edge of the playfield, usually connected so that the ball entering in one end will come out of the other.
  6. noun (figurative) A sphere of influence; an area or extent of activity, interest, or control. “In the post WWII era, several eastern European countries came into the orbit of the Soviet Union.”
  7. noun (anatomy) The bony cavity in the skull of a vertebrate containing the eyeball.
  8. noun (zoology) The area around the eye of a bird or other animal.
  9. verb (astronomy, transitive) To circle or revolve around another object or position. “The Earth orbits the Sun.”
  10. verb (transitive) To place an object (e.g. a satellite) into an orbit around a planet. “A rocket was used to orbit the satellite.”
  11. verb (transitive) To move around the general vicinity of something. “The harried mother had a cloud of children orbiting her, begging for sweets.”
  12. verb (transitive) To move in a circle.
  13. verb (transitive) To center (around).
  14. verb (transitive, dating) To continue to follow or engage with someone by means of social media after breaking up with them.

Synonyms

eye socket cranial orbit launch circumambulate tag along celestial orbit sphere domain area field arena scope range reach compass ambit electron orbit orbital cavity orb revolve

Antonyms

deorbit

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English orbite, orbita, from Latin orbita (“course, track, impression, mark”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The path described by a heavenly body in its periodical revolution around another body; as, the orbit of Jupiter, of the earth, of the moon.
  2. noun An orb or ball. [Rare & Improper]

Etymology [L. orbita a track or rut made by a wheel, course, circuit, fr. orbis a circle: cf. F. orbite. See 2d Orb.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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