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

printing

[ˈpʰɹ̥ɪɾ̃ɪŋ] noun

Also a form of print

Forms printings

  1. noun (uncountable) The process or business of producing printed material by means of inked type and a printing press or similar technology. “In those days, printing was big business in this city. Giant web-fed presses churned out countless tons of printed matter annually.”
  2. noun (uncountable) Synonym of printed matter. “They delivered a huge batch of printing yesterday, so you can expect an invoice shortly.”
  3. noun (countable) Synonym of print run (“all the copies of a publication that have been printed in one batch”). “She owns a copy of the first printing, which is a favorite among book collectors because some of the typos in it seem like Freudian slips.”
  4. noun (uncountable) Handwritten characters that are not joined up. “The instructions said, "Please sign your name and then print your name below your signature," so he wrote out his name underneath in the neatest printing that his hand could muster.”

Synonyms

imprintery printed matter print run printing process impression

Antonyms

cursive

Etymology

By surface analysis, print + -ing.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act, art, or practice of impressing letters, characters, or figures on paper, cloth, or other material; the business of a printer, including typesetting and presswork, with their adjuncts; typography; also, the act of producing photographic prints. Block printing. See under Block.

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

Sanskrit

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