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

“crystals” is a form of

crystal

/ˈkɹɪstəl/ noun, adjective, proper noun

Forms crystals christal christall chrystal chrystall cristal cristall crystall xtal

  1. noun (countable) A solid composed of an array of atoms or molecules possessing long-range order and arranged in a pattern which is periodic in three dimensions.
  2. noun (countable) A piece of glimmering, shining mineral resembling ice or glass.
  3. noun (uncountable) A fine type of glassware, or the material used to make it.
  4. noun (uncountable, slang) Crystal meth; methamphetamine hydrochloride.
  5. noun (obsolete, figuratively, usually in the plural) A person's eye.
  6. noun The glass over the dial of a watch case.
  7. adjective (literally) Made of crystal.
  8. adjective (figuratively) Very clear; coherent. “"Do I make myself clear?" / "Crystal."”
  9. proper noun A female given name from English.
  10. proper noun A surname.
  11. proper noun A ghost town in Gunnison County, Colorado.
  12. proper noun A town in Maine.
  13. proper noun A city in Minnesota.
  14. proper noun A census-designated place in New Mexico.
  15. proper noun A city and town in North Dakota.
  16. proper noun A town in Wisconsin.

Synonyms

grain crystalline crystallization quartz glass quartz vitreous silica lechatelierite watch crystal watch glass

Antonyms

glass

Etymology

From Middle English crystal, cristal, criȝstall, representing a merger of Old English cristalla (from Latin crystallus) and Anglo-Norman cristall, Old French cristal (from Latin crystallum). The Latin is derived from Ancient Greek κρύσταλλος (krústallos, “clear ice”), from κρύος (krúos, “frost”), from Proto-Indo-European *krews- (“hard, hard outer surface, crust”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The regular form which a substance tends to assume in solidifying, through the inherent power of cohesive attraction. It is bounded by plane surfaces, symmetrically arranged, and each species of crystal has fixed axial ratios. See Crystallization.
  2. noun The material of quartz, in crystallization transparent or nearly so, and either colorless or slightly tinged with gray, or the like; - -called also rock crystal. Ornamental vessels are made of it. Cf.
  3. adjective Consisting of, or like, crystal; clear; transparent; lucid; pellucid; crystalline.

Etymology [OE. cristal, F. cristal, L. crystallum crystal, ice, fr. Gr. crystalla, fr. L. crystallum; prob. akin to E. crust. See Crust, Raw.]

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

Sanskrit

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