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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beehive

/ˈbiːhaɪv/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms beehives beehiving beehived the Beehive bee-hive

  1. noun Such a home prepared by the bees themselves, in which some species of honey bees live and raise their young.
  2. noun A man-made structure in which honey bees are kept so that humans can harvest their honey.
  3. noun (figuratively) Any place full of activity, or in which people are very busy.
  4. noun A women's hairstyle, popular in the 1960s, in which long hair is styled into a hive-shaped form on top of the head and usually held in place with lacquer.
  5. noun A particular style of hat.
  6. noun A type of anti-personnel ammunition round containing flechettes, and characterised by the buzzing sound made as they fly through the air.
  7. noun (cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, a particular still life pattern with a rounded appearance.
  8. noun (cricket) A diagram showing where balls have passed the batter, used in analysis.
  9. verb (rare, transitive) To fill (a place) with busy activity.
  10. verb (rare, transitive) To style the hair in a hive-shaped or bouffant form.
  11. noun (Mormonism) A participant aged either twelve or thirteen years old in the Young Women organization of the LDS Church.
  12. proper noun (New Zealand, informal) The executive wing of the New Zealand parliament buildings.
  13. proper noun (by extension) New Zealand government.

Synonyms

hive apiary skep hive of activity B-52

Etymology

From Middle English beehyve, equivalent to bee + hive.

From beehive.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A hive for a swarm of bees. Also used figuratively.

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

Sanskrit

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