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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“phrased” is a form of

phrase

/ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ noun, verb

Forms phrases phrasing phrased

  1. noun A short written or spoken expression. “I've made progress, but this is still, in Churchill's phrase, just "the end of the beginning."”
  2. noun (grammar) A word or, more commonly, a group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence, always containing an expressed or implied head (the principal word or subgroup, with core importance) and often consisting of a head plus some other elaborating words.
  3. noun (music) A small section of music in a larger piece.
  4. noun (archaic) A mode or form of speech; diction; expression.
  5. noun (dance) A short individual motion forming part of a choreographed dance.
  6. verb (transitive) To express (an action, thought or idea) by means of particular words. “I wasn't sure how to phrase my condolences without sounding patronising.”
  7. verb (transitive, intransitive, music) To perform (a passage) with a particular phrasing.
  8. verb (transitive, music) To divide into melodic phrases.

Synonyms

figure of speech locution expression musical phrase idiom idiomatic expression phrasal idiom set phrase give voice formulate word articulate

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin phrasis (“diction”), from Ancient Greek φράσις (phrásis, “manner of expression”), from φράζω (phrázō, “to tell, express”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A brief expression, sometimes a single word, but usually two or more words forming an expression by themselves, or being a portion of a sentence; as, an adverbial phrase.
  2. noun A short, pithy expression; especially, one which is often employed; a peculiar or idiomatic turn of speech; as, to err is human.
  3. verb To express in words, or in peculiar words; to call; to style.
  4. verb To use proper or fine phrases. [R.]

Etymology [Cf. F. phraser.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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