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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structure

UK /ˈstɹʌk(t)ʃə/ · US /ˈstɹʌkt͡ʃɚ/ noun, verb

Forms structures structuring structured

  1. noun A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts. “The birds had built an amazing structure out of sticks and various discarded items.”
  2. noun The underlying shape of a solid. “He studied the structure of her face.”
  3. noun The overall form or organization of something. “The structure of a sentence.”
  4. noun A set of rules defining behaviour. “For some, the structure of school life was oppressive.”
  5. noun (computing) Several pieces of data treated as a unit. “This structure contains both date and timezone information.”
  6. noun (fishing, uncountable) Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend to attract fish “There's lots of structure to be fished along the west shore of the lake; the impoundment submerged a town there when it was built.”
  7. noun A body, such as a political party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook. “The South African leader went off to consult with the structures.”
  8. noun (logic) A set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations.
  9. verb (transitive) To give structure to; to arrange. “I'm trying to structure my time better so I'm not always late.”

Synonyms

formation makeup configuration arrangement composition format constitution form construction anatomical structure complex body part bodily structure body structure social organization social organisation social structure social system

Etymology

From Middle French structure, from Latin structūra (“a fitting together, adjustment, building, erection, a building, edifice, structure”), from struere, past participle structus (“pile up, arrange, assemble, build”). Compare construct, instruct, destroy, etc.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction. [R.]
  2. noun Manner of building; form; make; construction.

Etymology [L. structura, from struere, structum, to arrange, build, construct; perhaps akin to E. strew: cf. F. structure. Cf. Construe, Destroy, Instrument, Obstruct.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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