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

feeding

/ˈfiːdɪŋ/ noun

Also a form of feed

Forms feedings

  1. noun (uncountable) The act or process of giving food. “premium blend for feeding of dairy herds”
  2. noun (countable) An instance or session of giving food. “the morning feeding might differ from the evening feeding in protein content”
  3. noun (uncountable, usually said of animals) The act or process of eating. “feeding from round bales is necessary here in winter, when pasturage is ebbed”
  4. noun (countable, usually said of animals) An instance or session of eating. “picked up hardware disease during a feeding outside the intended pasture”
  5. noun (dated) That which is eaten: food, feed, or fodder.
  6. noun (dated) That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals.
  7. noun (uncountable) The loading of material into a machine that will process it. “caution in the feeding of the No. 3 mill”

Synonyms

eating alimentation

Etymology

By surface analysis, feed + -ing.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun the act of eating, or of supplying with food; the process of fattening.
  2. noun That which is eaten; food.

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

Sanskrit

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

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