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

extent

/ɪkˈstɛnt/ noun, adjective

Forms extents

  1. noun A range of values or locations.
  2. noun The space, area, volume, point, or abstract location, to which something extends. “I'm a thoroughgoing pragmatist to the fullest extent of the word.”
  3. noun (computing) A contiguous area of storage in a file system.
  4. noun The valuation of property.
  5. noun (law) A writ directing the sheriff to seize the property of a debtor, for the recovery of debts of record due to the Crown.
  6. adjective (obsolete) Extended.

Synonyms

expanse extension measure

Etymology

From Middle English extente, from Anglo-Norman extente and Old French estente (“valuation of land, stretch of land”), from estendre, extendre (“extend”) (or from Latin extentus), from Latin extendere (See extend.)

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Extended. [Obs.] Spenser.
  2. noun Space or degree to which a thing is extended; hence, superficies; compass; bulk; size; length; as, an extent of country or of line; extent of information or of charity.
  3. noun Degree; measure; proportion. "The extent to which we can make ourselves what we wish to be." Lubbock.

Etymology [L. extentus, p. p. of extendere. See Extend.]

Etymology [L. extentus, fr. extendere. See Extend.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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