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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bank

/ˈbæŋk/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms banks banking banked banck bancke banke

  1. noun (countable) An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
  2. noun (countable) A branch office of such an institution.
  3. noun (countable) An underwriter or controller of a card game.
  4. noun (countable) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
  5. noun (gambling, countable) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
  6. noun (slang, uncountable) Money; profit.
  7. noun (countable) In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
  8. noun (countable, chiefly in combination) A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods. “blood bank; data bank; sperm bank”
  9. verb (intransitive) To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client. “He banked with Barclays.”
  10. verb (transitive) To put into a bank (financial institution). “I’m going to bank the money.”
  11. verb (transitive) To store in a bank (storage).
  12. verb (transitive, slang) To conceal in the rectum for use in prison. “Johnny banked some coke for me.”
  13. verb (transitive, finance) To provide banking services to. “They proposed an ambitious plan to bank people in remote rural communities.”
  14. noun (hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
  15. noun (nautical, hydrology) An elevation under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth “the banks of Newfoundland”
  16. noun (geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
  17. noun (aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
  18. noun (rail transport) An incline, a hill.
  19. noun A mass of clouds. “The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front.”
  20. noun (mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.

Synonyms

Lombard house banker banque bar bank up line rank tier grid panel block depository financial institution banking concern banking company cant camber savings bank coin bank money box bank building deposit trust swear rely

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English banke, from Middle French banque, from Italian banca (“counter, moneychanger's bench or table”), from Lombardic bank (“bench, counter”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench, counter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to turn, curve, bend, bow”). Doublet of bench, banc, and banco.
For the bench-bank relation, compare typologically Russian ла́вка (lávka), прила́вок (prilávok).

From Middle English bank, banke, from Old English *banca (“bench”) (attested in Old English hōbanca (“couch”) and Old English banc (“bank, hillock, embankment”), from Proto-West Germanic *bankō, from Proto-Germanic *bankô. Akin to Old Norse bakki (“elevation, hill”), Norwegian bakke (“slope, hill”).

From Middle English bank, banke, from Old French banc (“bench”), from Frankish *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench”). Akin to Old English benċ (“bench”).

Probably from French banc. Of Germanic origin, and akin to English bench.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court. In banc, In banco (the ablative of bancus), In bank, in full court, or with full judicial authority; as, sittings in banc (distinguished from sittings at nisi prius).
  2. noun A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow.
  3. noun A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine.
  4. verb To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank. "Banked well with earth." Holland.

Etymology [OF. banc, LL. bancus. See Bank, n.]

Etymology [OE. banke; akin to E. bench, and prob. of Scand. origin.; cf. Icel. bakki. See Bench.]

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

Sanskrit

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