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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storage

UK /ˈstɔː.ɹɪd͡ʒ/ · US /ˈstɔɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/ noun, verb

Forms storages storaging storaged

  1. noun (uncountable) The act of storing goods; the state of being stored. “There's a lot of storage in the loft.”
  2. noun (usually countable) An object or place in which something is stored.
  3. noun (usually uncountable, computer hardware) Any computer device, including such as a disk, on which data is stored for a longer term than main memory. “I′d recommend backing up these files to storage before reinstalling the operating system.”
  4. noun (uncountable) The price charged for storing goods.
  5. verb (transitive) To put into storage; to store.

Synonyms

storehouse depot entrepot store memory computer memory computer storage memory board repositing reposition warehousing

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe keeping; also, the safe keeping of goods in a warehouse.
  2. noun Space for the safe keeping of goods.

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