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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industry

/ˈɪn.də.stɹi/ noun, proper noun

Forms industries

  1. noun (uncountable) The tendency to work persistently. “Over the years, their industry and business sense made them wealthy.”
  2. noun (countable, business, economics) Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole; trade. “The software and tourism industries continue to grow, while the steel industry remains troubled.”
  3. noun (uncountable, economics) Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.
  4. noun (in the singular, economics) The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises. “There used to be a lot of industry around here, but now the economy depends on tourism.”
  5. noun (Europe software patent law) Automated production of material goods.
  6. noun (archaeology) A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.
  7. proper noun A city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

Synonyms

industriousness diligence hardworkingness application sector field businesses that produce goods manufacture

Etymology

From Middle English industry, industrie, from Old French industrie, from Latin industria (“diligence, activity, industry”), from industrius (“diligent, active, zealous”), from Old Latin indostruus (“diligent, active”); origin unknown. Perhaps from indu (“in”) + ūst-, ūstr-, stem of ūrō (“burn, burn up, consume”, verb), related to Old High German ūstrī (“industry”), Old English andūstrian (“to hate, detest”, literally “to be consumed with zeal”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Habitual diligence in any employment or pursuit, either bodily or mental; steady attention to business; assiduity; --opposed to sloth and idleness; as, industry pays debts, while idleness or despair will increase them.
  2. noun Any department or branch of art, occupation, or business; especially, one which employs much labor and capital and is a distinct branch of trade; as, the sugar industry; the iron industry; the cotton industry.

Etymology [L. industria, cf. industrius diligent; of uncertain origin: cf. F. industrie.]

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

Sanskrit

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