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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

symbol

/ˈsɪmbəl/ noun, verb

Forms symbols symboling symbolling symboled symbolled

  1. noun A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object. “"$" is the symbol for dollars in the US and some other countries.”
  2. noun A thing considered the embodiment or cardinal exemplar of a concept, theme, or other thing. “The lion is the symbol of courage; the lamb is the symbol of meekness or patience.”
  3. noun (linguistics) A type of noun whereby the form refers to the same entity independently of the context; a symbol arbitrarily denotes a referent. See also icon and index.
  4. noun A summary of a dogmatic statement of faith. “The Apostles, Nicene Creed and the confessional books of Protestantism, such as the Augsburg Confession of Lutheranism are considered symbols.”
  5. noun (crystallography) The numerical expression which defines a plane's position relative to the assumed axes.
  6. noun (obsolete) That which is thrown into a common fund; hence, an appointed or accustomed duty.
  7. noun (obsolete) Share; allotment.
  8. noun (programming) An internal identifier used by a debugger to relate parts of the compiled program to the corresponding names in the source code.
  9. verb To symbolize.

Synonyms

symbolization symbolisation symbolic representation

Etymology

From French symbole, from Latin symbolus, symbolum (“a sign, mark, token, symbol, in Late Latin also a creed”), from Ancient Greek σύμβολον (súmbolon, “a sign by which one infers something; a mark, token, badge, ticket, tally, check, a signal, watchword, outward sign”), from συμβάλλω (sumbállō, “to throw together, dash together, compare, correspond, tally, come to a conclusion”), from σύν (sún, “with, together”) + βάλλω (bállō, “to throw, put”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A visible sign or representation of an idea; anything which suggests an idea or quality, or another thing, as by resemblance or by convention; an emblem; a representation; a type; a figure; as, the lion is the symbol of courage; the lamb is the symbol of meekness or patience.
  2. noun Any character used to represent a quantity, an operation, a relation, or an abbreviation.
  3. verb To symbolize. [R.] Tennyson.

Etymology [L. symbolus, symbolum, Gr. symbole. Cf. Emblem, Parable.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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