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

outline

/ˈaʊtlaɪn/ noun, verb

Forms outlines outlining outlined

  1. noun A line marking the boundary of an object figure.
  2. noun The outer shape of an object or figure.
  3. noun A sketch or drawing in which objects are delineated in contours without shading.
  4. noun A general description of some subject.
  5. noun A statement summarizing the important points of a text.
  6. noun A preliminary plan for a project. “the outline of a speech”
  7. noun (film) A prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay; generally longer and more detailed than a treatment.
  8. noun (fishing) A setline or trotline.
  9. verb (transitive) To draw an outline of; to describe.
  10. verb (transitive) To summarize. “Wikipedia items featuring books usually outline them after giving their background.”
  11. verb (transitive, software compilation) To optimize for size by replacing repeated code fragments with function calls.

Synonyms

lineation reverse inline synopsis abstract precis schema scheme sketch adumbrate draft delineate limn

Etymology

From out + line.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Fig.: A sketch of any scheme; a preliminary or general indication of a plan, system, course of thought, etc.; as, the outline of a speech.
  2. verb To draw the outline of.
  3. verb Fig.: To sketch out or indicate as by an outline; as, to outline an argument or a campaign.

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

Sanskrit

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