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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access

UK /ˈæksɛs/ · US /ˈækˌsɛs/ noun, verb

Forms accesses accessing accessed

  1. noun (uncountable) A way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage. “The door provides access to the premises.”
  2. noun (uncountable) The act of approaching or entering; an advance. “They gained access to the basement from the stairs.”
  3. noun (uncountable) The right or ability of approaching or entering; admittance; admission; accessibility. “Staff prevent unauthorized access to the building.”
  4. noun (uncountable) The quality of being easy to approach or enter. “ease of access”
  5. noun (uncountable) Admission to sexual intercourse.
  6. noun (archaic, countable) An increase by addition; accession. “an access of territory”
  7. noun (countable) An onset, attack, or fit of disease; an ague fit.
  8. noun (countable) An outburst of an emotion; a paroxysm; a fit of passion.
  9. verb (transitive) To gain or obtain access to.
  10. verb (transitive, computing) To have access to (data). “I can't access most of the data on the computer without a password.”

Synonyms

accession entree admission admittance approach access code memory access get at

Etymology

From Middle English accesse, acces, borrowed from Middle French acces (“attack, onslaught”) or from its source Latin accessus, perfect passive participle of accēdō (“approach; accede”), from ad (“to, toward, at”) + cēdō (“move, yield”). Doublet of accessus. First attested in the early 14th century. The sense "entrance" was first attested about 1380.

First attested in 1962.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince.
  2. noun The means, place, or way by which a thing may be approached; passage way; as, the access is by a neck of land. "All access was thronged." Milton.

Etymology [F. accès, L. accessus, fr. accedere. See Accede.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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