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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picture

UK /ˈpɪk.t͡ʃə/ · US /ˈpɪk.t͡ʃɚ/ noun, verb

Forms pictures picturing pictured pickchah pickchuh pitcha pitchah pitcher pitchuh pitchur

  1. noun A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.
  2. noun An image; a representation as in the imagination.
  3. noun A painting. “There was a picture hanging above the fireplace.”
  4. noun A photograph. “I took a picture of the church.”
  5. noun (dated or India) A motion picture. “Casablanca is my all-time favorite picture.”
  6. noun (in the plural, informal) ("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment). “Let's go to the pictures.”
  7. noun A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (of a category). “She's the very picture of health.”
  8. noun An attractive sight. “The garden is a real picture at this time of year.”
  9. verb (transitive) To represent in or with a picture.
  10. verb (transitive) To imagine or envision.
  11. verb (transitive) To depict or describe vividly.

Synonyms

image icon ikon painting mental picture impression scene pictorial matter movie film moving picture moving-picture show motion picture motion-picture show picture show pic flick video word picture word-painting delineation depiction characterization characterisation photograph photo exposure visualize visualise envision

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English picture, from Latin pictūra (“the art of painting, a painting”), from pingō (“to paint”). Doublet of pictura.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The art of painting; representation by painting. [Obs.]
  2. noun A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced by means of painting, drawing, engraving, photography, etc.; a representation in colors. By extension, a figure; a model.
  3. verb To draw or paint a resemblance of; to delineate; to represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of; to bring before the mind. "I . . . do picture it in my mind." Spenser.

Etymology [L. pictura, fr. pingere, pictum, to paint: cf. F. peinture. See Paint.]

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

Sanskrit

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