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

radius

/ˈɹeɪ.di.əs/ noun, verb

Forms radii radiuses radiusing radiused

  1. noun (anatomy) The long bone in the forearm, on the side of the thumb.
  2. noun (zoology) The lighter bone (or fused portion of bone) in the forelimb of an animal.
  3. noun (entomology) One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the subcosta and the media; the vein running along the costal edge of the discal cell.
  4. noun (geometry) A line segment between any point of a circle or sphere and its center. “Fatima claims to have visited all the bars within a five-mile radius of her Manhattan apartment.”
  5. noun (geometry) The length of this line segment.
  6. noun Anything resembling a radius, such as the spoke of a wheel, the movable arm of a sextant, or one of the radiating lines of a spider's web.
  7. noun (graph theory) The minimum eccentricity of any vertex, for a given graph.
  8. verb (transitive) To give a rounded edge to.

Synonyms

R spoke wheel spoke

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin radius (“ray”). Doublet of ray.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A right line drawn or extending from the center of a circle to the periphery; the semidiameter of a circle or sphere.
  2. noun The preaxial bone of the forearm, or brachium, corresponding to the tibia of the hind limb. See Illust. of Artiodactyla.

Etymology [L., a staff, rod, spoke of a wheel, radius, ray. See Ray a divergent line.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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