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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folding

UK /ˈfəʊldɪŋ/ · US /ˈfoʊldɪŋ/ adjective, noun

Also a form of fold

Forms foldings

  1. adjective Designed to fold “a folding bed, a folding bicycle, a folding chair”
  2. noun The action of folding; a fold.
  3. noun The keeping of sheep in enclosures on arable land, etc.
  4. noun (computing, programming) Code folding: a source code display technique that can hide the contents of methods, classes, etc. for easier navigation.
  5. noun (geology) the deformation of the Earth's crust in response to slow lateral compression.
  6. noun (slang) Paper money, as opposed to coins.

Synonyms

protein folding fold foldable foldaway

Antonyms

non-folding

Etymology

By surface analysis, fold + -ing.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of making a fold or folds; also, a fold; a doubling; a plication.
  2. noun The keepig of sheep in inclosures on arable land, etc. Folding boat, a portable boat made by stretching canvas, etc., over jointed framework, used in campaigning, and by tourists, etc. Ham. Nav.

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

Sanskrit

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