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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signature

UK /ˈsɪɡ.nə.t͡ʃə/ · US /ˈsɪɡ.nə.t͡ʃɚ/ noun, adjective, verb

Forms signatures signaturing signatured

  1. noun A person's name, written by that person, used as identification or to signify approval of accompanying material, such as a legal contract.
  2. noun An act of signing one's name; an act of producing a signature.
  3. noun (medicine) The part of a doctor’s prescription containing directions for the patient.
  4. noun (music) Signs on the stave indicating key and tempo, composed of the key signature and the time signature.
  5. noun (printing) A group of four (or a multiple of four) sheets printed such that, when folded, they become a section of a book.
  6. noun (computing) A pattern used for matching the identity of a virus, the parameter types of a method, etc.
  7. noun (cryptography) Data attached to a message that guarantees that the message originated from its claimed source.
  8. noun (figurative) A mark or sign of implication.
  9. adjective Distinctive, characteristic, indicative of identity. “Rabbit in mustard sauce is my signature dish.”
  10. verb (ambitransitive) To sign with one's signature, to write one's signature on.

Synonyms

John Hancock John Henry sig siggy iconic sign touch signature tune theme song key signature

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French signature, or from Medieval Latin signātūra, future active periphrastic of verb signāre from signum (“sign”), + -tūra, feminine of -tūrus, future active periphrastic suffix. Displaced native Old English handseten (literally “hand setting”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A sign, stamp, or mark impressed, as by a seal.
  2. noun Especially, the name of any person, written with his own hand, employed to signify that the writing which precedes accords with his wishes or intentions; a sign manual; an autograph.
  3. verb To mark with, or as with, a signature or signatures.

Etymology [F. (cf. It. signatura, segnatura, Sp. & LL. signatura), from L. signare, signatum. See Sign, v. t.]

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

Sanskrit

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