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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ping

/pɪŋ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms pings pinging pinged pang pung

  1. noun A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound. “My car used to make an odd ping, but after the last oil change it went away.”
  2. noun (submarine navigation) A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels. “The submarine sent out a ping and got an echo from a battleship.”
  3. noun (networking) A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence. “The network is overloaded from all the pings going out.”
  4. noun (text messaging, Internet) An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement. “I sent a ping to the insurance company to see if they received our claim.”
  5. noun (networking) Latency.
  6. noun (video games) A means of highlighting a feature on the game map so that allied players can see it.
  7. noun (Wikimedia jargon) A notification.
  8. verb To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound. “My car was pinging until my last oil change.”
  9. verb (submarine navigation) To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects.
  10. verb (networking) To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility. “I'm pinging their server.”
  11. verb (by extension) To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response. “I'll ping the insurance company again to see if they've received our claim.”
  12. verb (colloquial) To flick. “I pinged the crumb off the table with my finger.”
  13. verb (colloquial, intransitive) To bounce. “The ball pinged off the wall and came hurtling back.”
  14. verb (colloquial, sports, transitive) To cause something to bounce.
  15. verb (colloquial, sports) To call out audibly.
  16. proper noun A surname.
  17. proper noun A female given name.

Synonyms

Ping River pink knock

Etymology

Partly onomatopoeic, and partly continuing Middle English pingen (“to push, shove, pierce, stab, prod, goad, urge, feel remorse, incite”), from Old English pyngan (“to prick”), in turn likely from pungere. Compare English pang.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The sound made by a bullet in striking a solid object or in passing through the air.
  2. verb To make the sound called ping.

Etymology [Probably of imitative origin.]

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