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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Opening

UK /ˈəʊ.pə.nɪŋ/ · US /ˈoʊ.pə.nɪŋ/ proper noun, adjective, noun

Also a form of open

Forms openings

  1. proper noun Synonym of Fatiha.
  2. adjective Pertaining to the start or beginning of a series of events. “The opening theme of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is, perhaps, the most recognizable in all of European art music.”
  3. adjective (cricket) Of the first period of play, usually up to the fall of the first wicket.
  4. adjective (cricket) Of the batsman who opens the innings or of a bowler who opens the attack.
  5. noun An act or instance of making or becoming open. “The daily openings of the day lily bloom gives it its name.”
  6. noun A gap permitting passage through. “A salamander darted out of an opening in the rocks.”
  7. noun An act or instance of beginning. “There have been few factory and store openings in the US lately.”
  8. noun The first performance of a show or play by a particular troupe.
  9. noun The initial period when an art exhibition, fashion show, etc. is first opened, especially the first evening.
  10. noun The first few measures of a musical composition.
  11. noun The first few moves in a game. “John spends two hours a day studying chess openings, and another two hours studying endgames.”
  12. noun (finance, stock market) The initial movement in a market when it opens.

Synonyms

Fatiha hole availability slot job opening gap crevice interspace opening night curtain raising possibility possible action orifice porta hatchway scuttle chess opening first step initiative opening move

Antonyms

closing

Etymology

From Middle English openynge, openande, openand, from Old English openiende, from Proto-West Germanic *opanōndī, from Proto-Germanic *upanōndz, present participle of *upanōną (“to open”), equivalent to open + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian iepenjend, Dutch openend, German öffnend, Swedish öppnande, Icelandic opnandi.

From Middle English openyng, openynge, openunge, from Old English openung (“an opening”), from Proto-West Germanic *opanungu, from Proto-Germanic *upanungō (“an opening”), equivalent to open + -ing. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Eepenge, Epenge (“an opening”), West Frisian iepening (“an opening”), Dutch opening (“an opening”), German Öffnung (“an opening”), Danish åbning (“an opening”), Swedish öppning (“an opening”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act or process of opening; a beginning; commencement; first appearance; as, the opening of a speech.
  2. noun A place which is open; a breach; an aperture; a gap; cleft, or hole.

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

Sanskrit

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

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