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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splice

/ˈsplaɪ̯s/ noun, verb

Forms splices splicing spliced

  1. noun (nautical) A junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together.
  2. noun (electricity) The electrical and mechanical connection between two pieces of wire or cable.
  3. noun (cricket) That part of a bat where the handle joins the blade. “If the ball hits the splice, it is likely to dolly up for an easy catch.”
  4. noun Bonding or joining of overlapping materials.
  5. noun (genetics) The process of removing intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then joining together exons.
  6. verb To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, the union being between two ends, or between an end and the body of a rope.
  7. verb To unite, as spars, timbers, rails, etc., by lapping the two ends together, or by applying a piece which laps upon the two ends, and then binding, or in any way making fast.
  8. verb (slang) To unite in marriage.
  9. verb (figuratively) To unite as if splicing. “He argues against attempts to splice different genres or species of literature into a single composition.”
  10. verb (genetics) To remove intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then join together exons.
  11. verb (software engineering) To add, remove and/or replace several array/data elements in one operation.

Synonyms

tail splicing lap joint marry wed tie

Etymology

Circa 1525, borrowed from Middle Dutch splissen (Modern Dutch splitsen); akin to Middle Dutch splitten (“to split”), German spleißen (“to split, splice”), Spliss (“split ends, hair breakage”), French épisser (also from Dutch). The Dutch word originally referred only to the fraying of the ropes' ends but was then also used for the entire process of fraying and retying; hence the peculiar semantic development from “split” to “join”. The same development occurred in German.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, --the union being between two ends, or between an end and the body of a rope.
  2. verb To unite, as spars, timbers, rails, etc., by lapping the two ends together, or by applying a piece which laps upon the two ends, and then binding, or in any way making fast.
  3. noun A junction or joining made by splicing.

Etymology [D. splitsen, splitten; akin to G. splissen, Sw. splissa, Dan. splisse, and E. split; -- from the dividing or splitting the ends into separate strands. See Split, v. t.]

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