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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factory

UK /ˈfæk.tə.ɹi/ · US /ˈfæk.tɚ.i/ noun, adjective

Forms factories

  1. noun A building or other place where manufacturing takes place. “History has shown that, even without cheap labor, factories run perfectly well.”
  2. noun (UK, slang) A police station.
  3. noun A device or process that produces or manufactures something.
  4. noun A factory farm. “chicken factory; pig factory”
  5. noun (programming) In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.
  6. noun (attributive) The original state of an electronic device, as it was when it came from the manufacturer. “factory settings; factory defaults; a factory reset”
  7. noun (chiefly Scotland, now rare) The position or state of being a factor.
  8. noun (historical) A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.
  9. adjective (colloquial, of a configuration, part, etc.) Having come from the factory in the state it is currently in; original, stock. “See how there's another layer of metal there? That's not factory.”

Synonyms

manufactory mill manufacturing plant

Etymology

Probably from factor + -y, although in noun sense 1 (“a place where manufacturing takes place”) apparently influenced strongly by association with Classical Latin fact-, the past participial stem of faciō (“to make”); compare manufactory and Latin factōrium (“an oil press”). In noun sense 8 (“a trading establishment”), originally after Portuguese feitoria. In noun sense 9 (“an invoice or inventory”), probably after obsolete Dutch facture (“bill”); see facture.
Compare Dutch factorij, Middle French factorie, Spanish factoría.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers. "The Company's factory at Madras." Burke.
  2. noun The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory. W. Guthrie.

Etymology [Cf. F. factorerie.]

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