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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field

/ˈfi(ː)ld/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms fields fielding fielded Feild

  1. noun A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country. “There are several species of wild flowers growing in this field.”
  2. noun (usually in the plural) The open country near or belonging to a town or city.
  3. noun A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier. “There were some cows grazing in a field.”
  4. noun When coupled with a number (e.g. two-field) used to define types of crop rotation, denoting the number of different crop types (and possibly fallow) that are used.
  5. noun (geology) A region containing a particular mineral. “an oil field; a gold field”
  6. noun An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
  7. noun A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
  8. noun An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force. “soccer field”
  9. verb (transitive, sports) To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
  10. verb (intransitive, baseball, softball, cricket, and other batting sports) To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it. “The blue team are fielding first, while the reds are batting.”
  11. verb (transitive, sports) To place (a team, its players, etc.) in a game. “The away team fielded two new players and the second-choice goalkeeper.”
  12. verb (transitive) To answer; to address. “She will field questions immediately after her presentation.”
  13. verb (transitive) To execute research (in the field). “He fielded the marketing survey about the upcoming product.”
  14. verb (transitive, military) To deploy in the field. “to field a new land-mine detector”
  15. proper noun A surname.
  16. proper noun A community near Field Hill within Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada, named after Cyrus West Field.
  17. proper noun A community in West Nipissing, Northeastern Ontario, Canada.
  18. proper noun An unincorporated community in Bell County, Kentucky, United States.
  19. proper noun A neighbourhood of Nokomis, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
  20. proper noun A locality in Coorong council area, south-east South Australia.

Synonyms

area domain sphere realm course court ground pitch input field box address answer deal with respond to battlefield battleground field of battle field of honor discipline subject subject area subject field field of study study bailiwick field of force force field field of operation line of business orbit

Antonyms

bat

Etymology

From Middle English feld, feeld (“field”), from Old English feld (“field”), from Proto-West Germanic *felþu (“field”), from Proto-Germanic *felþuz (“field”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“field, plain”) or *pleth₂- (“flat”) (with schwebeablaut).
Cognate with Scots feld, feild (“field”), North Frisian fial, fälj (“field”), Saterland Frisian Fäild (“field”), West Frisian fjild (“field”), Dutch veld (“field”), German and Luxembourgish Feld (“field”), Vilamovian fald (“field”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk felt (“field”), Swedish fält (“field”), Finnish pelto (“field”), Asturian and Leonese platu (“plate”), Aragonese and Spanish plato (“plate”), Catalan plat (“plate”), French plat (“dish”), Galician, Mirandese, and Portuguese prato (“plate”), Italian piatto (“plate”), Latin *plattus (“flattened”), Greek πλατύς (platýs, “wide, broad”). Doublet of plate. Related also to Middle English flat (“flat”), Old English folde (“earth, land, territory”), Old English folm (“palm of the hand”). More at flat, fold.
Not related to English felt.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.
  2. noun A piece of land of considerable size; esp., a piece inclosed for tillage or pasture.
  3. verb To take the field. [Obs.] Spenser.
  4. verb To stand out in the field, ready to catch, stop, or throw the ball.

Etymology [OE. feld, fild, AS. feld; akin to D. veld, G. feld, Sw. fält, Dan. felt, Icel. fold field of grass, AS. folde earth, land, ground, OS. folda.]

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

Sanskrit

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