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

cutting

/ˈkʌtɪŋ/ noun, adjective, proper noun

Also a form of cut

Forms cuttings

  1. noun (countable, uncountable) The action of the verb to cut. “How many different cuttings can this movie undergo?”
  2. noun (countable) A section removed from a larger whole.
  3. noun (countable) A newspaper clipping.
  4. noun (countable, horticulture) A leaf, stem, branch, or root removed from a plant and cultivated to grow a new plant.
  5. noun (countable) An abridged selection of written work, often intended for performance. “The actor had to make his cutting shorter to fit the audition time.”
  6. noun (countable, UK) An open passage at a level lower than the surrounding terrain, dug for a canal, railway, or road to go through.
  7. noun (uncountable, cinematography, sound engineering) The editing of film or other recordings.
  8. noun (uncountable, machining) The process of bringing metals to a desired shape by chipping away the unwanted material. “Boring, drilling, milling, and turning are all different kinds of metal cutting processes.”
  9. adjective That is used for cutting. “I need some sort of cutting utensil to get through this shrink wrap.”
  10. adjective Piercing, sharp.
  11. adjective Of criticism, remarks, etc.: (potentially) hurtful; curt. “The director gave the auditioning actors cutting criticism.”
  12. adjective (India) Of a beverage: half-sized. “a cutting chai”
  13. adjective (slang, obsolete) Cutthroat; ruthlessly competitive.
  14. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

chip slice bit chunk tranche clip crumb crumbling flake fleak fragment hunk lump mammock ort piece piecemeal portion scrap scraplet film editing slip cut clipping newspaper clipping press clipping press cutting carving thinning cutting off

Antonyms

embankment

Etymology

From cut + -ing.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc.
  2. noun Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or
  3. adjective Adapted to cut; as, a cutting tool.
  4. adjective Chilling; penetratinn; sharp; as, a cutting wind.

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

Sanskrit

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