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

picking

/ˈpɪkɪŋ/ noun

Also a form of pick

Forms pickings

  1. noun A gathering to pick fruit. “We went to a strawberry picking last June.”
  2. noun (usually pluralized) Items remaining after others have selected the best; scraps, as of food.
  3. noun (usually pluralized) Income or other gains, especially if obtained in an unscrupulous or objectionable manner. “easy pickings, rich pickings”
  4. noun Something picked or pulled out. “The schoolboy flicked his nose pickings across the classroom.”
  5. noun The act of making a choice; selection.
  6. noun The final finishing of woven fabrics by removing burs, etc.
  7. noun The removal of defects from electrotype plates.
  8. noun Dabbing in stoneworking.

Synonyms

leftovers booty pick

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick.
  2. noun The act of choosing, plucking, or gathering.
  3. adjective Done or made as with a pointed tool; as, a picking sound.
  4. adjective Nice; careful. [Obs.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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