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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image

/ˈɪm.ɪd͡ʒ/ noun, verb

Forms images imaging imaged

  1. noun A visual or other representation of the external form of something in art. “The Bible forbids the worship of graven images.”
  2. noun A file on a computer containing a single frame; an image file.
  3. noun A mental picture of something not real or not present.
  4. noun A statue or idol.
  5. noun (computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.) “Most game console emulators do not come with any ROM images for copyright reasons.”
  6. noun A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is or wishes to be perceived by others.
  7. noun (mathematics) The value a function maps some argument to. “The number 6 is the image of 3 under f that is defined as f(x) = 2x.”
  8. noun (mathematics) The subset of the codomain of a function comprising those elements that are the image of some element of its domain. “The image of this step function is the set of integers.”
  9. verb (transitive) To represent by an image or symbol; to portray.
  10. verb (transitive) To reflect, mirror.
  11. verb (transitive) To create an image of.
  12. verb (transitive, computing) To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.

Synonyms

idea range picture value mental image persona icon ikon prototype paradigm epitome trope figure of speech figure double look-alike range of a function effigy simulacrum visualize visualise envision project fancy see

Etymology

From Middle English ymage, borrowed from Old French image, from Latin imāgō (“a copy, likeness, image”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eym-; the same PIE root is the source of imitari (“to copy, imitate”); see imitate. Doublet of imago.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a visible presentation; a copy; a likeness; an effigy; a picture; a semblance.
  2. noun Hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an idol.
  3. verb To represent or form an image of; as, the still lake imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure. "Shrines of imaged saints." J. Warton.
  4. verb To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of by the fancy or recollection; to imagine.

Etymology [F., fr. L. imago, imaginis, from the root of imitari to imitate. See Imitate, and cf. Imagine.]

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

Sanskrit

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