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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orb

UK /ɔːb/ · US /ɔɹb/ noun, verb

Forms orbs orbing orbed

  1. noun A spherical body; a sphere, especially one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star
  2. noun Celestial sphere; one of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be enclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions
  3. noun (architecture) A structural motif or finial in the shape of a sphere
  4. noun An orbit of an heavenly body
  5. noun (rare) The time period of an orbit
  6. noun (poetic) The eye, seen as a luminous and spherical entity
  7. noun (poetic) Any revolving circular body, such as a wheel
  8. noun (rare) A sphere of action.
  9. verb (poetic, transitive) To form into an orb or circle.
  10. verb (poetic, intransitive) To become round like an orb.
  11. verb (poetic, transitive) To encircle; to surround; to enclose.
  12. noun (architecture) A blank window or panel.

Synonyms

ball globe sphere year eye roller wheel area domain field province globus cruciger mound circle orbit eyeball revolve

Etymology

From Middle English orbe, from Old French orbe, from Latin orbis (“circle, orb”). Compare orbit.

From Old French orb (“blind”), from Latin orbus (“destitute”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A blank window or panel. [Obs.] Oxf. Gloss.
  2. noun A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star.
  3. noun One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be inclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions.
  4. verb To form into an orb or circle. [Poetic] Milton. Lowell.

Etymology [OF. orb blind, fr. L. orbus destitute.]

Etymology [F. orbe, fr. L. orbis circle, orb. Cf. Orbit.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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