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

text

/tɛkst/ noun, verb

Forms texts texting texted

  1. noun A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
  2. noun A book, tome or other set of writings.
  3. noun (by extension) Anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.
  4. noun (computing) Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.
  5. noun A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
  6. noun (printing) A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing. “German text”
  7. verb (transitive) To send a text message to; i.e. to transmit text using the Short Message Service (SMS), or a similar service, between communications devices, particularly mobile phones. “Just text me when you get here.”
  8. verb (intransitive) To send and receive text messages. “Have you been texting all afternoon?”
  9. verb (dated) To write in large characters, as in text hand.

Synonyms

topic theme text hand message SMS textual matter textbook text edition schoolbook school text

Antonyms

binary

Etymology

From Middle English text, from Old French texte, from Medieval Latin textus, from Latin textus (“style or texture of a work”), perfect passive participle of texō (“to weave”). Cognate to texture.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A discourse or composition on which a note or commentary is written; the original words of an author, in distinction from a paraphrase, annotation, or commentary. Chaucer.
  2. noun The four Gospels, by way of distinction or eminence. [R.]
  3. verb To write in large characters, as in text hand. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Etymology [F. texte, L. textus, texture, structure, context, fr. texere, textum, to weave, construct, compose; cf. Gr. taksh to cut, carve, make. Cf. Context, Mantle, n., Pretext, Tissue, Toil a snare.]

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

Sanskrit

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