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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theme

/θiːm/ noun, verb

Forms themes theming themed

  1. noun A subject, now especially of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.
  2. noun A concept with multiple instantiations. “variations on the theme of entrepreneurial resourcefulness”
  3. noun Any of various colors, or color palettes, in which a design is offered; (graphical user interface) any of various skins for an app, affecting the visuals and perhaps other elements such as sound effects. “switch to a dark theme to conserve battery power”
  4. noun (dated) An essay written for school.
  5. noun (music) The main melody of a piece of music, especially one that is the source of variations.
  6. noun (film, television, video games) A song, or a snippet of a song, that identifies a film, a TV program, a character, etc. by playing at the appropriate time.
  7. noun (crosswording) An additional puzzle within the crossword, typically involving a set of non-standard clues or answers.
  8. noun (grammar) The stem of a word.
  9. verb (transitive) To give a theme to. “We themed the birthday party around superheroes.”
  10. verb (computing, transitive) To apply a theme to; to change the visual appearance and/or layout of (software).

Synonyms

colorway subject topic motif melodic theme musical theme idea composition paper report root root word base stem radical

Etymology

From Middle English teme, from Old French teme, tesme (French thème), from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma), from τίθημι (títhēmi, “to put, place”), reduplicative from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, do”) (whence also English do). Doublet of thema.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A subject or topic on which a person writes or speaks; a proposition for discussion or argument; a text.
  2. noun Discourse on a certain subject.

Etymology [OE. teme, OF. teme, F. thème, L. thema, Gr. Do, and cf. Thesis.]

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