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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bulk

/bʌlk/ noun, adjective, verb

Forms bulks bulking bulked

  1. noun Size, specifically, volume.
  2. noun Any huge body or structure. “The obese woman couldn't ease her bulk through the narrow passageway.”
  3. noun The major part of something.
  4. noun Majority, balance. “The bulk of my income comes from my office job, but I also teach a couple of evening classes.”
  5. noun Gist. “I understood the bulk of what you were saying, just one of two points I need to hear again.”
  6. noun Dietary fibre.
  7. noun (uncountable, transport) Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore, or grain.
  8. noun (countable) A cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.
  9. adjective Being large in size, mass, or volume (of goods, etc.).
  10. adjective Total.
  11. verb (intransitive) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.
  12. verb (intransitive) To grow in size; to swell or expand.
  13. verb (intransitive) To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc.
  14. verb (transitive) To put or hold in bulk.
  15. verb (transitive, obsolete) To add bulk to; to bulk out.

Synonyms

majority mass volume bulge

Etymology

From Middle English bulk, bolke (“a heap, cargo, hold; heap; bulge”), borrowed from Old Norse búlki (“the freight or the cargo of a ship”), from Proto-Germanic *bulkô (“beam, pile, heap”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“beam, pile, prop”). Compare Icelandic búlkast (“to be bulky”), Swedish dialectal bulk (“a bunch”), Danish bulk (“bump, knob”).
Conflated with Middle English bouk (“belly, trunk”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Magnitude of material substance; dimensions; mass; size; as, an ox or ship of great bulk.
  2. noun The main mass or body; the largest or principal portion; the majority; as, the bulk of a debt.
  3. verb To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent; to swell.
  4. noun A projecting part of a building. [Obs.]

Etymology [OE. bulke, bolke, heap; cf. Dan. bulk lump, clod, OSw. bolk crowd, mass, Icel. b to be bulky. Cf. Boll, n., Bile a boil, Bulge, n.]

Etymology [Icel. balkr a beam, partition. Cf. Balk, n. & v.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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