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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clique

UK /kliːk/ · US /klik/ noun, verb

Forms cliques cliquing cliqued the clique click

  1. noun A small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic such as lifestyle or social status, or common purpose; specifically one formed for disreputable purposes, or which purports to be an authority on a particular matter; a cabal. “This school used to be really friendly, but now everyone keeps to their own cliques.”
  2. noun (graph theory) A subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph. “The problem of finding the largest clique in an arbitrary graph is NP-complete.”
  3. noun (Internet) A group of related websites that link to each other, like a webring but with exclusive membership determined by the clique owner.
  4. noun (China, historical) An informal faction in the Republic of China (1912–1949) led by one or more warlords exercising regional control through local armed forces (particularly during the Warlord Era); a regional junta.
  5. verb To form a clique (“small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic”; noun sense 1); to associate with others in a clannish way.
  6. verb (specifically) To act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot, to scheme.

Synonyms

camp coterie inner circle circle faction gang ingroup pack

Antonyms

independent set

Etymology

The noun is borrowed from French clique (“exclusive group of individuals; (archaic or obsolete) group of people hired to applaud or boo, claque”), from cliquer (“to clap; to clack, to click”), ultimately of imitative origin.
The proper noun and verb are derived from the noun.

Ellipsis of Skeleton Clique.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A narrow circle of persons associated by common interests or for the accomplishment of a common purpose; --generally used in a bad sense.
  2. verb To To associate together in a clannish way; to act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot; --used with together.

Etymology [F., fr. OF. cliquer to click. See Click, v. i.]

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