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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globe

UK /ɡləʊb/ · US /ɡloʊb/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms globes globing globed the globe

  1. noun (medicine) The eyeball.
  2. noun A spherical model of Earth or of another planet.
  3. noun A part of a device, often a lamp. “the globe of a lamp”
  4. noun (dated or Australia, South Africa) A light bulb.
  5. noun A circular military formation used in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the modern infantry square.
  6. noun (slang, quite uncommon, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast or buttock, whichever is more prominent.
  7. noun (obsolete) A group.
  8. noun A land snail of the genus Mesodon.
  9. verb (intransitive) To become spherical.
  10. verb (transitive) To make spherical.
  11. proper noun (with the) The Earth. “They aspired to circumnavigate the Globe.”
  12. proper noun (with the) The Globe Theatre, the famous theatre for which Shakespeare wrote and performed. “They aspired to replicate the Globe.”
  13. proper noun A city, the county seat of Gila County, Arizona.
  14. proper noun An unincorporated community in Clark County, Wisconsin.

Synonyms

globus eyeglobe bulbus oculi bulbus Earth world ball orb

Etymology

From late Middle English globe, from Middle French globe, from Old French globe, borrowed from Latin globus. Doublet of globus.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A round or spherical body, solid or hollow; a body whose surface is in every part equidistant from the center; a ball; a sphere.
  2. noun Anything which is nearly spherical or globular in shape; as, the globe of the eye; the globe of a lamp.
  3. verb To gather or form into a globe.

Etymology [L. globus, perh. akin to L. glomus a ball of yarn, and E. clump, golf: cf. F. globe.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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