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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dot

UK /dɒt/ · US /dɑt/ noun, proper noun

Forms dots D.O.T. D. O. T.

  1. noun A small, round spot. “a dot of colour”
  2. noun (grammar) A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.
  3. noun A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ.
  4. noun (mathematics) A symbol used for separating the fractional part of a decimal number from the whole part, for indicating multiplication or a scalar product, or for various other purposes.
  5. noun In musical notation, a symbol in the form of a small point placed after a note, indicating that its duration is to be augmented by 50%.
  6. noun One of the two symbols used in Morse code.
  7. noun (obsolete) A lump or clot.
  8. noun Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.
  9. proper noun A diminutive of the female given name Dorothy.
  10. noun (by extension, video games) A weapon or ability that deals damage over time as opposed to or in addition to direct damage.

Synonyms

speck spot full stop period point decimal point dit blob dab ounce dicky-bird itsy-bitsy minuity ace atom thought atomy aught bissel continental Department of Transportation Transportation acid back breaker battery-acid dose Elvis loony toons Lucy in the sky with diamonds pane

Antonyms

HOT

Etymology

From Middle English *dot, dotte, from Old English dott (“a dot, point”), from Proto-West Germanic *dott, from Proto-Germanic *duttaz (“wisp”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Dot, Dotte (“a clump”), Dutch dot (“lump, knot, clod”), Low German Dutte (“a plug”), dialectal Swedish dott (“a little heap, bunch, clump”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A marriage portion; dowry. [Louisiana]
  2. noun A small point or spot, made with a pen or other pointed instrument; a speck, or small mark.
  3. noun Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen; as, a dot of a child.
  4. verb To mark with dots or small spots; as, to dot a line.

Etymology [F., fr. L. dos, dotis, dowry. See Dower, and cf. Dote dowry.]

Etymology [Cf. AS. dott small spot, speck; of uncertain origin.]

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

Sanskrit

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