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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packet

/ˈpæk.ɪt/ noun, verb

Forms packets packeting packeted pacquet

  1. noun A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel “Don't throw the crisp packet on the floor!”
  2. noun (nautical) Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. Packet boat, ship, vessel (Wikipedia).
  3. noun (botany) A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.
  4. noun (networking) A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks (Wikipedia).
  5. noun (networking) A protocol data unit of the Internet Protocol.
  6. noun (networking) A message sent over a transport layer protocol.
  7. noun (South Africa) A plastic bag.
  8. noun (slang) Synonym of package (“male genitalia”).
  9. verb (transitive) To make up into a packet or bundle.
  10. verb (transitive) To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
  11. verb (intransitive) To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
  12. verb (transitive, Internet) To subject to a denial-of-service attack in which a large number of data packets are sent.

Synonyms

package bundle parcel mailboat mail boat packet boat

Etymology

From Middle English pacquet; either from Middle French pacquet, or formed independently from pak and -et.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters. Shak.
  2. noun Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat.
  3. verb To make up into a packet or bundle.
  4. verb To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.

Etymology [F. paquet, dim. fr. LL. paccus, from the same source as E. pack. See Pack.]

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

Sanskrit

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