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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conduit

/ˈkɑnd(j)ʊɪt/ noun

Forms conduits cundite

  1. noun A pipe or channel for conveying water, etc. “This channel is a conduit to send the excess water back to the millpond.”
  2. noun A duct or tube into which electrical cables may be pulled: electrical conduit. “Last week the electricians were running conduit, and this week they'll be pulling cable.”
  3. noun (cellular automata) Any pattern, typically composed of still lifes or oscillators, used to transfer an active region to another location without being destroyed or permanently modified in the process.
  4. noun (figurative) A means by which something is transmitted. “The medium considered herself a conduit for messages from the spirit world.”
  5. noun (finance) An investment vehicle that issues short-term commercial paper to finance long-term off–balance sheet bank assets.

Etymology

From Middle English conduyt, condit, from Old French conduit, from Latin conductus. Doublet of conduct.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A pipe, canal, channel, or passage for conveying water or fluid.
  2. noun (a) A structure forming a reservoir for water. Oxf. Gloss.

Etymology [F., fr. LL. conductus escort, conduit. See Conduct.]

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