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

“districts” is a form of

district

/ˈdɪstɹɪkt/ noun, verb, adjective, proper noun

Forms districts districting districted the District

  1. noun An administrative division of an area. “Soho is a district of London”
  2. noun An area or region marked by some distinguishing feature. “the Lake District in Cumbria”
  3. noun (UK) An administrative division of a county without the status of a borough. “South Oxfordshire District Council”
  4. noun (mining) A specific, usually named area of the coalface where particular seams are worked.
  5. verb (transitive) To divide into administrative or other districts. “A county districted for voting purposes.”
  6. adjective (obsolete) rigorous; stringent; harsh
  7. proper noun (with determiner, informal) The District of Columbia, the federal district of the United States.
  8. proper noun (with determiner, mostly local usage) Any of numerous governmental districts.
  9. proper noun (rail transport) The District Line of the London Underground, originally known as the District Railway.

Synonyms

territory territorial dominion dominion zone

Etymology

From French district, from Medieval Latin districtus (“a district within which the lord may distrain, also jurisdiction”), from Latin districtus, past participle of distringere (“to draw asunder, compel, distrain”), from dis- (“apart”) + stringere (“to draw tight, strain”). Doublet of Detroit.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Rigorous; stringent; harsh. [Obs.]
  2. noun The territory within which the lord has the power of coercing and punishing.
  3. noun A division of territory; a defined portion of a state, town, or city, etc., made for administrative, electoral, or other purposes; as, a congressional district, judicial district, land district, school district, etc. To exercise exclusive legislation . . . over such district not exceeding ten miles square. The Constitution of the United States.
  4. verb To divide into districts or limited portions of territory; as, legislatures district States for the choice of representatives.

Etymology [L. districtus, p. p.]

Etymology [LL. districtus district, fr. L. districtus, p. p. of distringere: cf. F. district. See Distrain.]

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

Sanskrit

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