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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cooking

/ˈkʊkɪŋ/ noun, adjective

Also a form of cook

Forms cookings

  1. noun (uncountable) The process of preparing food by using heat.
  2. noun (countable, rare) An instance of preparing food by using heat.
  3. noun (uncountable) One's ability to prepare food; cookery. “My cooking isn't very good. I don't have any idea how to prepare a good meal.”
  4. noun (uncountable) The style or genre of food preparation. “What you've produced is a perfect example of authentic Chinese cooking.”
  5. noun (uncountable) The cheapest available beer for sale in a public house.
  6. adjective Designed or suitable for culinary purposes. “I filled the cooking pot with water, and poured some cooking sherry into the skillet.”
  7. adjective (informal) In progress, happening. “The project took a few days to gain momentum, but by the end of the week, things were really cooking.”
  8. adjective (of an alcoholic drink) Cheap; better suited for use in recipes than drinking.

Synonyms

culinary art cookery preparation

Etymology

From cook + -ing. The noun and adjective follow from the verb. The use of the word cooking to describe cheap bitter was popularized by the title character of the BBC sitcom Oh No, It’s Selwyn Froggitt (1974-1978). It refers to cooking sherry, a kind of sherry used in cooking but not suitable for drinking on its own.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “cooking”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

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

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