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

probe

UK /pɹəʊb/ · US /pɹoʊb/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms probes probing probed

  1. noun (surgery) Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc.
  2. noun (comedy, fiction) An anal probe, a fictional instrument commonly used by aliens on abducted humans.
  3. noun (figuratively) Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information.
  4. noun An act of probing; a prod, a poke.
  5. noun (figuratively) An investigation or inquiry. “They launched a probe into the cause of the accident.”
  6. noun (aeronautics) A tube attached to an aircraft which can be fitted into the drogue from a tanker aircraft to allow for aerial refuelling.
  7. noun (sciences) A small device, especially an electrode, used to explore, investigate or measure something by penetrating or being placed in it. “Insert the probe into the soil and read the temperature.”
  8. noun (astronautics) A small, usually uncrewed, spacecraft used to acquire information or measurements about its surroundings.
  9. verb (ambitransitive) To explore, investigate, question, test, or prove. “If you probe further, you may discover different reasons.”
  10. verb (transitive) To insert a probe into.
  11. proper noun A model of Ford automobile.

Synonyms

yosu-miru scope investigation examine dig into poke into

Etymology

For verb: borrowed from Latin probare (“to test, examine, prove”), from probus (“good”). Doublet of prove.
For noun: borrowed from Late Latin proba (“a proof”), from probare (“to test, examine, prove”); Doublet of proof. Compare Spanish tienta (“a surgeon's probe”), from tentar (“try, test”); see tempt.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To examine, as a wound, an ulcer, or some cavity of the body, with a probe.
  2. verb Fig.: to search to the bottom; to scrutinize or examine thoroughly. Dryden.
  3. noun An instrument for examining the depth or other circumstances of a wound, ulcer, or cavity, or the direction of a sinus, of for exploring for bullets, for stones in the bladder, etc. Parr. Probe, or Probe-pointed, scissors (Surg.), scissors used to open wounds, the blade of which, to be thrust into the orifice, has a button at the end. Wiseman.

Etymology [L. probare to try, examine. See Prove.]

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

Sanskrit

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