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

“cancelings” is a form of

cancel

/ˈkæn.sl̩/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms cancels canceling cancelling canceled cancelled cancell

  1. verb (transitive) To cross out something with lines etc.
  2. verb (transitive) To invalidate or annul something. “He cancelled his order on their website.”
  3. verb (transitive) To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it cannot be reused. “This machine cancels the letters that have a valid zip code.”
  4. verb (transitive) To offset or equalize something. “The corrective feedback mechanism cancels out the noise.”
  5. verb (transitive, mathematics) To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.
  6. verb (transitive, media) To stop production of a programme.
  7. verb (printing, dated) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
  8. verb (obsolete) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
  9. noun (US) A cancellation.
  10. noun A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message.
  11. noun (obsolete) An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.
  12. noun (printing) The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
  13. noun (printing) The page thus suppressed.
  14. noun (printing) The page that replaces it.
  15. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

belay undo remit annihilate bag baptize bereave of life blight bring down bump off bury cack compromised to a permanent end croak crush dash deactivate dead demolish destroy natural call off scratch scrub offset set off strike down delete invalidate

Antonyms

commission continue initiate renew uphold validate

Etymology

From Middle English cancellen, from Anglo-Norman canceler (“to cross out with lines”) (modern French chanceler (“to stagger, sway”)), from Old French canceler, from Latin cancellō (“to make resemble a lattice”), from cancellus (“a railing or lattice”), diminutive of cancer (“a lattice”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.
  2. verb To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
  3. noun An inclosure; a boundary; a limit. [Obs.]
  4. noun (a) The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.

Etymology [L. cancellare to make like a lattice, to strike or cross out (cf. Fr. canceller, OF. canceler) fr. cancelli lattice, crossbars, dim. of cancer lattice; cf. Gr. Chancel.]

Etymology [See Cancel, v. i., and cf. Chancel.]

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