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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target

UK /ˈtɑː.ɡɪt/ · US /ˈtɑɹ.ɡɪt/ noun, verb

Forms targets targeting targetting targeted targetted

  1. noun A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile. “Take careful aim at the target.”
  2. noun A goal or objective. “They have a target to finish the project by November.”
  3. noun An object of criticism or ridicule.
  4. noun A person, place, or thing that is frequently attacked, criticized, or ridiculed.
  5. noun A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
  6. noun (obsolete) A shield resembling the Roman scutum, larger than the modern buckler.
  7. noun (heraldry) A bearing representing a buckler.
  8. noun (sports) The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark. “He made a good target.”
  9. verb (transitive) To aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target).
  10. verb (transitive, figuratively) To aim for as an audience or demographic. “The advertising campaign targeted older women.”
  11. verb (transitive, computing) To produce code suitable for. “This cross-platform compiler can target any of several processors.”

Synonyms

target language targe mark prey quarry fair game target area butt aim object objective place direct point

Etymology

From Middle French targette, targuete, diminutive of targe (“light shield”), from Old French, from Frankish *targa (“buckler”), akin to Old Norse targa (“small round shield”) (whence also Old English targe, targa (“shield”)) from Proto-Germanic *targǭ (“edge”), from Proto-Indo-European *derǵʰ- (“fenced lot”). Akin to Old High German zarga (“side wall, rim”) (German Zarge (“frame”)), Spanish tarjeta (“card”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
  2. noun The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.

Etymology [OF. targette, dim. of OF. & F. targe, of Teutonic origin; cf. AS. targe, OD. targie, G. zarge a frame, case, border, OHG. zarga, Icel. targa shield.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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