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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sinkhole

/ˈsɪŋkˌhoʊl/ noun, verb

Forms sinkholes sinkholing sinkholed sink hole sink-hole

  1. noun (geology) A hole formed in soluble rock by the action of water, serving to conduct surface water to an underground passage.
  2. noun A depressed area in which waste or drainage collects.
  3. noun (pinball) A hole in the playfield that rewards the player when the ball is guided into it.
  4. noun (Internet) A domain name server that has been configured to hand out non-routeable addresses for all domains, so that every computer that uses it will fail to get access to the real website.
  5. noun (computer security) An attack which redirects requests, whether network or memory accesses, to a new location defined by the attacker.
  6. verb (Internet, transitive) To configure as a sinkhole (domain name server that gives non-routeable addresses).

Synonyms

cenote doline dolina shakehole sink swallet swallow hole

Etymology

From Middle English sinkehole, sinkeholl, equivalent to sink + hole.

Sources: Wiktionary — from the Wiktionary entry “sinkhole”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details