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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package

/ˈpæk.ɪd͡ʒ/ noun, verb

Forms packages packaging packaged pakige

  1. noun Something which is packed, a parcel, a box, an envelope. “A dirty package was left in my home.”
  2. noun Something which consists of various components, such as a piece of computer software. “Did you test the software package to ensure completeness?”
  3. noun (software) A piece of software which has been prepared in such a way that it can be installed with a package manager.
  4. noun (uncountable, archaic) The act of packing something.
  5. noun Something resembling a package.
  6. noun A package holiday.
  7. noun A football formation. “For third and short, they're going to bring in their jumbo package.”
  8. noun (euphemistic, vulgar) The male genitalia.
  9. verb To pack or bundle something.
  10. verb To travel on a package holiday.
  11. verb To prepare (a book, a television series, etc.), including all stages from research to production, in order to sell the result to a publisher or broadcaster.

Synonyms

wrap bundle packet parcel software software program computer software software system software package box

Etymology

Equivalent to pack + -age. Possibly influenced by Anglo-Latin paccagium or Old French pacquage.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Act or process of packing.
  2. noun A bundle made up for transportation; a packet; a bale; a parcel; as, a package of goods.

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

Sanskrit

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