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

type

/taɪp/ noun, verb, adverb

Forms types typing typed

  1. noun A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class. “This type of plane can handle rough weather more easily than that type of plane.”
  2. noun An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.
  3. noun An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
  4. noun (uncountable) Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.
  5. noun (chiefly uncountable) Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics. “The headline was set in bold type.”
  6. noun (taxonomy) Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typical.
  7. noun Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to. “We can't get along: he's just not my type.”
  8. noun (medicine) A blood group.
  9. verb To put text on paper using a typewriter.
  10. verb To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.
  11. verb To determine the blood type of. “The doctor ordered the lab to type the patient for a blood transfusion.”
  12. verb To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.
  13. verb To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.
  14. verb To categorize into types.
  15. adverb (African-American Vernacular, slang, rare) Very, extremely.

Synonyms

category class genre group kind nature sort stripe tribe hue type-word data type mad hella wicked dumb dummy odee bare character eccentric case typewrite typecast

Antonyms

antitype

Etymology

From Middle English type (“symbol, figure, emblem”), from Latin typus, from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), from τύπτω (túptō, “to strike, beat”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The mark or impression of something; stamp; impressed sign; emblem.
  2. noun Form or character impressed; style; semblance.
  3. verb To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.
  4. verb To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify. [R.]

Etymology [F. type; cf. It. tipo, from L. typus a figure, image, a form, type, character, Gr. tup to hurt.]

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

Sanskrit

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

All 9 Sanskrit matches →