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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resource

UK /ɹɪˈzɔːs/ · US /ˈɹisɔɹs/ noun, verb

Forms resources resourcing resourced

  1. noun Something that one uses to achieve an objective, e.g. raw materials or personnel.
  2. noun A person's capacity to deal with difficulty. “a man or woman of resource”
  3. noun Something that can be used to help achieve an aim, especially a book, equipment, etc. that provides information for teachers and students.
  4. noun (networking) Hardware or software that is accessible by a computer, network, or another object connected to a computer.
  5. verb To supply with resources.
  6. verb To source anew or differently; to find or provide a new source for.

Synonyms

resourcefulness imagination

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French ressource, from Old French resourse, resource (“a source, spring”), from resourdre, from Latin resurgō (“to rise again, spring up anew”). Equivalent to re- + source. See resourd, resurgent, source.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun That to which one resorts orr on which one depends for supply or support; means of overcoming a difficulty; resort; expedient.
  2. noun pl.

Etymology [F. ressource, fr. OF. ressourdre, resourdre, to spring forth or up again; pref. re- re- + sourdre to spring forth. See Source.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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