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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snapshot

/ˈsnæpʃɒt/ noun, verb

Forms snapshots snapshotting snapshotted

  1. noun A photograph, especially one taken quickly or in a sudden moment of opportunity. “He carried a snapshot of his daughter.”
  2. noun A glimpse of something; a portrayal of something at a moment in time. “The article offered a snapshot of life in that region.”
  3. noun (computing) A file or set of files captured at a particular time, often capable of being reloaded to restore the earlier state. “This game is so hard that I find myself taking a snapshot every few seconds in case I get killed.”
  4. noun (soccer) A quick, unplanned or unexpected shot.
  5. noun (firearms) A quick offhand shot, made without deliberately taking aim over the sights.
  6. verb (transitive) To take a photograph of.
  7. verb (transitive, computing) To capture the state of, in a snapshot.

Synonyms

snap shot

Etymology

From snap + shot.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Commonly Snap shot.
  2. noun An instantaneous photograph made, usually with a hand camera, without formal posing of, and often without the foreknowledge of, the subject.

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