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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matrix

/ˈmeɪ.tɹɪks/ noun, proper noun

Forms matrices matrixes the Matrix matrice

  1. noun The cavity or mold in which anything is formed.
  2. noun (now rare) The womb.
  3. noun The metaphorical place where something is made, formed, or given birth.
  4. noun (biology) The material or tissue in which more specialized structures are embedded.
  5. noun (biology) An extracellular matrix, the material or tissue between the cells of animals or plants.
  6. noun (biology) Part of the mitochondrion.
  7. noun (biology) The medium in which bacteria are cultured.
  8. noun A table of data.
  9. proper noun (science fiction) A simulated reality to which many humans are connected. In some works created by sentient machines to subdue humans.
  10. proper noun (figurative) A social institution or apparatus perceived as largely deceptive or illusory.

Synonyms

array grid spreadsheet table printing form intercellular substance ground substance

Etymology

From Middle English matris, matrice, matrix, from Old French matrice (“pregnant animal”), or from Latin mātrīx (“dam, womb”), both ultimately from māter (“mother”). Doublet of mother from Indo-European ancestor.
Slang usage coined with the 1999 sci-fi action film The Matrix.

From the 1984 novel Neuromancer and popularized in the 1999 movie The Matrix. See matrix for further etymology.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The womb.
  2. noun Hence, that which gives form or origin to anything; as: (a) (Mech.) The cavity in which anything is formed, and which gives it shape; a die; a mold, as for the face of a type.

Etymology [L., fr. mater mother. See Mother, and cf. Matrice.]

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

Sanskrit

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