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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framework

UK /ˈfɹeɪm.wɜːk/ · US /ˈfɹeɪm.wɝk/ noun

Forms frameworks

  1. noun (literally) A support structure comprising joined parts or conglomerated particles and intervening open spaces of similar or larger size.
  2. noun (literally) The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.
  3. noun (figuratively) The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.
  4. noun (figuratively) A basic conceptual structure. “These ‘three principles of connexion’ compose the framework of principles in Hume's account of the association of ideas.”
  5. noun (software engineering) A reusable piece of code (and, sometimes, other utilities) providing a standard environment within which an application can be implemented.
  6. noun (grammar) An established and structured system of rules and principles used for analyzing and describing the structure of a language.

Synonyms

ossature model theoretical account fabric

Etymology

From frame + work.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The work of framing, or the completed work; the frame or constructional part of anything; as, the framework of society.
  2. noun Work done in, or by means of, a frame or loom.

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

Sanskrit

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