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

raising

/ˈɹeɪzɪŋ/ noun

Also a form of raise

Forms raisings

  1. noun Elevation.
  2. noun Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity. “cattle raising”
  3. noun Recruitment.
  4. noun Collection or gathering, especially of money.
  5. noun (US) The operation or work of setting up the frame of a building.
  6. noun (linguistics) The movement of an argument from an embedded or subordinate clause to a matrix or main clause.
  7. noun (linguistics, phonetics) A sound change in which a vowel or consonant becomes higher or raised, meaning that the tongue becomes more elevated or positioned closer to the roof of the mouth than before.
  8. noun The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.

Synonyms

elevation lift rearing nurture breeding bringing up fostering fosterage upbringing

Antonyms

lowering

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English reysynge; equivalent to raise + -ing.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life.
  2. noun Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building; as, to help at a raising. [U.S.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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