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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heading

/ˈhɛdɪŋ/ noun

Also a form of head

Forms headings

  1. noun The title or topic of a document, article, chapter, or of a section thereof. “put the information under the "Advantages" heading”
  2. noun (nautical and aeronautical) The direction into which a seagoing or airborne vessel's bow is pointing (apparent heading) and/or the direction into which it is actually moving relative to the ground (true heading)
  3. noun Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.
  4. noun (mining) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine, particularly one driving through a solid body of coal or ore; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.
  5. noun (sewing) The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch.
  6. noun (masonry) The end of a stone or brick which is presented outward.
  7. noun (flags) A strip of material at the hoist end of a flag, used for attaching the flag to its halyard.

Synonyms

roadway header head bearing aim drift gallery

Etymology

From head + -ing.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act or state of one who, or that which, heads; formation of a head.
  2. noun That which stands at the head; title; as, the heading of a paper.

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

Sanskrit

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