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

ruby

/ˈɹuː.bi/ noun, adjective, verb, proper noun

Forms rubies rubying rubied

  1. noun A clear, deep, red variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone.
  2. noun A deep red colour.
  3. noun (heraldry) The tincture red or gules.
  4. noun A ruby hummer, a South American hummingbird, Clytolaema rubricauda.
  5. noun A red bird-of-paradise, Paradisaea rubra.
  6. noun (uncountable, printing, UK, dated) The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5½-point.
  7. noun (typography) A pronunciation guide written above or beside Chinese characters.
  8. noun (obsolete) A red spinel.
  9. adjective Of a deep, red color; ruby-red.
  10. verb (transitive, poetic) To make red; to redden.
  11. proper noun A female given name.
  12. proper noun (rare) A surname.
  13. proper noun (rare) A male given name.
  14. proper noun (computer languages) A dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language developed in the 1990s.
  15. proper noun A city in Alaska.
  16. proper noun A ghost town in Arizona.
  17. proper noun A town in South Carolina.
  18. proper noun A town in Wisconsin.
  19. noun (Cockney rhyming slang) A curry; ellipsis of Ruby Murray. “We're going down the Indian for a Ruby; wanna join us?”

Synonyms

agate crimson deep red red reddish ruddy blood-red carmine cerise cherry cherry-red ruby-red scarlet

Etymology

From Middle English ruby, rube, from Old French rubi, from Medieval Latin rubīnus. Doublet of rubi and rubine.
Etymology 1 sense 7 (“pronunciation guide”) is from the British 5½-point type size (etymology 1 sense 6), used for annotations in printed documents.

The female name derives from ruby in the 19th century. The programming language was named after the gemstone.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of corundum.
  2. noun The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
  3. adjective Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.
  4. verb To make red; to redden. [R.] Pope.

Etymology [F. rubis (cf. Pr. robi), LL. rubinus, robinus, fr. L. rubeus red, reddish, akin to ruber. See Rouge, red.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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