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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sample

UK /ˈsɑːm.pəl/ · US /ˈsæm.pəl/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms samples sampling sampled

  1. noun A part or snippet of something taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen. “a blood sample”
  2. noun (statistics) A subset or portion of a population that is systematically selected for measurement, observation, or questioning, with the objective of generating statistical information that accurately reflects the characteristics of the entire population. “Large samples are generally more reliable than small samples due to having less variability.”
  3. noun (cooking) A small quantity of food for tasting, typically given away for free.
  4. noun (business) A small piece of some goods, for determining quality, colour, etc., typically given away for free.
  5. noun (music) A borrowing of easily recognised phases (or moments) from other music (or movies) in a recording.
  6. noun (obsolete) Example; pattern.
  7. verb (transitive) To take or to test a sample or samples of.
  8. verb (transitive, signal processing) To reduce a continuous signal (such as a sound wave) to a discrete signal.
  9. verb (music, transitive) To reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new piece of music.
  10. verb (transitive, computer graphics) To make or show something similar to a sample.
  11. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

example specimen sample distribution sampling try try out taste

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English saumple, sample, from Old French essample (“example”), from Latin exemplum. Doublet of example and exemplum.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Example; pattern. [Obs.] Spenser. "A sample to the youngest." Shak.
  2. noun A part of anything presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen; as, goods are often purchased by samples.
  3. verb To make or show something similar to; to match. Bp. Hall.
  4. verb To take or to test a sample or samples of; as, to sample sugar, teas, wools, cloth.

Etymology [OE. sample, asaumple, OF. essample, example, fr. L. exemplum. See Example, and cf. Ensample, Sampler.]

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