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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organic

UK /ɔːˈɡænɪk/ · US /oɹˈɡænɪk/ adjective, noun

Forms organics organick

  1. adjective (biology) Pertaining to or derived from living organisms.
  2. adjective (physiology, medicine) Pertaining to an organ of the body of a living organism.
  3. adjective (chemistry) Relating to the compounds of carbon, relating to natural products.
  4. adjective (agriculture) Of food or food products, grown in an environment free from artificial agrichemicals, and possibly certified by a regulatory body.
  5. adjective (sociology) Describing a form of social solidarity theorized by Emile Durkheim that is characterized by voluntary engagements in complex interdependencies for mutual benefit (such as business agreements), rather than mechanical solidarity, which depends on ascribed relations between people (as in a family or tribe).
  6. adjective (military) Of a military unit or formation, or its elements, belonging to a permanent organization (in contrast to being temporarily attached).
  7. adjective Instrumental; acting as instruments of nature or of art to a certain destined function or end.
  8. adjective (Internet, marketing, of search results) Generated according to the ranking algorithms of a search engine, as opposed to deliberate promotional techniques e.g. by advertisers.
  9. noun (chemistry) An organic compound.
  10. noun An organic food.
  11. noun (science fiction) A living organism, as opposed to a robot or hologram.

Synonyms

organic fertilizer organic fertiliser constituent constitutional constitutive

Antonyms

inorganic functional

Etymology

From Middle English organic, organik, from Old French organique, from Latin organicus.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to an organ or its functions, or to objects composed of organs; consisting of organs, or containing them; as, the organic structure of animals and plants; exhibiting characters peculiar to living organisms; as, organic bodies, organic life, organic remains. Cf. Inorganic.
  2. adjective Produced by the organs; as, organic pleasure. [R.]

Etymology [L. organicus, Gr. organique.]

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

Sanskrit

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