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

fiber

UK /ˈfaɪ.bə/ · US /ˈfaɪ.bɚ/ noun

Also a form of fibre

Forms fibers fibre

  1. noun (countable) A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread. “The microscope showed a single blue fiber stuck to the sole of the shoe.”
  2. noun (uncountable) A material in the form of fibers. “The cloth is made from strange, somewhat rough fiber.”
  3. noun (textiles) A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width. “Please use polyester fiber for this shirt.”
  4. noun Dietary fiber. “Fresh vegetables are a good source of fiber.”
  5. noun (figuratively) Moral strength and resolve. “The ordeal was a test of everyone's fiber.”
  6. noun (mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map. “Under this map, any two values in the fiber of a given point on the circle differ by 2π.”
  7. noun (category theory) The pullback of a morphism along a global element (called the fiber of the morphism over the global element).
  8. noun (computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.

Synonyms

fibre roughage character vulcanized fiber

Etymology

From French fibre, from Old French fibre, from Latin fibra.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle.
  2. noun Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one of the slender rootlets of a plant.

Etymology [F. fibre, L. fibra.]

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