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

scheme

/skiːm/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms schemes scheming schemed

  1. noun (rhetoric, obsolete) An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.
  2. noun (astrology) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
  3. noun A systematic plan of future action.
  4. noun A plot or secret, devious plan. “Her brain is continually fermenting new schemes.”
  5. noun An orderly combination of related parts.
  6. noun A chart or diagram of a system or object.
  7. noun (mathematics) A mathematical structure that generalizes the notion of an algebraic variety in several ways, such as taking account of multiplicities and allowing “varieties” defined over any commutative ring. Formally, a locally ringed space that admits a covering by open sets, each of which is isomorphic to an affine scheme (i.e. the spectrum of some commutative ring).
  8. noun (UK, chiefly Scotland, colloquial) A council housing estate.
  9. verb (intransitive) To plot, or contrive a plan; to maneuver.
  10. verb (transitive) To plan; to contrive; to maneuver.
  11. proper noun A programming language, one of the two major dialects of Lisp.

Synonyms

blueprint design plan plot project proposal conspiracy intrigue machination device schematic chart diagram map graph graphic estate hatch strategy dodge dodging system schema outline connive

Etymology

From late Middle English scheame, from Medieval Latin schēma (“figure, form”), from Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, “form, shape”), from ἔχω (ékhō, “to hold”). Doublet of schema. Compare sketch.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.
  2. noun A plan or theory something to be done; a design; a project; as, to form a scheme.
  3. verb To make a scheme of; to plan; to design; to project; to plot.
  4. verb To form a scheme or schemes.

Etymology [L. schema a rhetorical figure, a shape, figure, manner, Gr. sah to be victorious, to endure, to hold out, AS. sige victory, G. sieg. Cf. Epoch, Hectic, School.]

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

Sanskrit

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