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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hash

/ˈhæʃ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms hashes hashing hashed

  1. noun Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.
  2. noun A confused mess.
  3. noun (typography) The # symbol (octothorpe, pound).
  4. noun (computing) The result generated by a hash function.
  5. noun (computing, cryptocurrencies) One guess made by a mining computer in the effort of finding the correct answer which releases the next unit of cryptocurrency; see also hashrate.
  6. noun A new mixture of old material; a second preparation or exhibition; a rehashing.
  7. noun A hash run.
  8. noun (Scotland) A stupid fellow.
  9. verb (transitive) To chop into small pieces, to make into a hash.
  10. verb To make a quick, rough version. “We need to quickly hash up some plans.”
  11. verb (computing, transitive) To transform according to a hash function.
  12. verb (transitive, colloquial) To make a mess of (something); to ruin.
  13. noun (slang) Hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant.
  14. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

scramble crunch hash mark /hashmark hash sign hashtag number sign octothorpe /octothorn pound pound sign square checksum hashish hasheesh haschisch

Etymology

From French hacher (“to chop”), from Middle French hacher, from Old French hacher, from Old French hache (“axe”), from Frankish *happjā (“axe”). Compare also Old English ġehæċċa (“sausage meat”, literally “that which is hacked or chopped up”).

Clipping of hashish.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun That which is hashed or chopped up; meat and vegetables, especially such as have been already cooked, chopped into small pieces and mixed.
  2. noun A new mixture of old matter; a second preparation or exhibition.
  3. verb To as, to hash meat. Hudibras.

Etymology [Formerly hachey, hachee, F. hachis, hacher to hash; of German origin; cf. G. hippe sickle, OHG. hippa, for happia. Cf. Hatchet.]

Etymology [From Hash, n.: cf. F. hacher to hash.]

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