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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tape

/teɪ̯p/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms tapes taping taped

  1. noun Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape. “Hand me some tape. I need to fix a tear in this paper.”
  2. noun Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll. “We made some decorative flowers out of the tape we bought.”
  3. noun Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race. “Jones broke the tape in 47.77 seconds, a new world record.”
  4. noun Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape. “Did you get that on tape?”
  5. noun (informal, by extension) Any video or audio recording, regardless of the method used to produce it.
  6. noun (informal) An unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus. “Old couples will sometimes play tapes at each other during a fight.”
  7. noun (trading, from ticker tape) The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades. “Don’t fight the tape.”
  8. noun (ice hockey) The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stick. “His pass was right on the tape.”
  9. verb To bind with adhesive tape. “Be sure to tape your parcel securely before posting it.”
  10. verb To record, originally onto magnetic tape. “You shouldn’t have said that. The microphone was on and we were taping.”
  11. verb (informal, passive voice) To understand, figure out. “I've finally got this thing taped.”
  12. proper noun a nearly extinct language spoken on Vanuatu

Synonyms

tape recording taping tapeline tape measure magnetic tape mag tape videotape record

Etymology

From Middle English tape, tappe, from Old English tæppa, tæppe (“ribbon, tape”); further origin unclear.
Probably akin to Old Frisian tapia (“to pull, rip, tear”), Middle Low German tappen, tāpen (“to grab, pull, rip, tear, snatch”), Middle High German zāfen, zāven (“to pull, tear”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A narrow fillet or band of cotton or linen; a narrow woven fabric used for strings and the like; as, curtains tied with tape.
  2. noun A tapeline; also, a metallic ribbon so marked as to serve as a tapeline; as, a steel tape. Red tape. See under Red.

Etymology [AS. tæppe a fillet. Cf. Tapestry, Tippet.]

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

Sanskrit

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