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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piecemeal

/ˈpiːs.miːl/ adjective, adverb, verb, noun

Forms piecemeals piecemealing piecemealed

  1. adjective (idiomatic) Made or done in pieces or one stage at a time. “a piecemeal approach”
  2. adverb Piece by piece; in small amounts, stages, or degrees.
  3. adverb Into pieces or parts.
  4. verb (transitive) To divide or distribute piecemeal; dismember.
  5. noun A fragment; a scrap.

Synonyms

piecewise stepwise incremental gradual slow little by little apart bit by bit apportion mete out parcel out distribute bit lump portion bit-by-bit in small stages step-by-step in stages

Etymology

From Middle English pecemele, from pece (“piece”) + mele (from Old English mǣlum (“at a time”), dative plural form of mǣl (“time, measure”), taking the place of Old English styċċemǣlum (“in pieces, bit by bit, piecemeal; to pieces, to bits; here and there, in different places; little by little, by degrees, gradually”); equivalent to piece + -meal.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." Chapman.
  2. adverb Piece by piece; by little and little in succession.
  3. adjective Made up of parts or pieces; single; separate. "These piecemeal guilts." Gov. of Tongue.
  4. noun A fragment; a scrap. R. Vaughan.

Etymology [OE. pecemele; pece a piece + AS. m, dat. pl. of m part. See Meal a portion.]

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

Sanskrit

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