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

“searcheth” is a form of

search

UK /sɜːt͡ʃ/ · US /sɝt͡ʃ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms searches searching searched searchest searchedst searcheth

  1. noun An attempt to find something. “With only five minutes until we were meant to leave, the search for the keys started in earnest.”
  2. noun The act of searching in general. “Search is a hard problem for computers to solve efficiently.”
  3. verb (transitive) To look in (a place) for something. “I searched the garden for the keys and found them in the vegetable patch.”
  4. verb (intransitive, followed by "for") To look thoroughly. “The police are searching for evidence in his flat.”
  5. verb (transitive, now rare) To look for, seek.
  6. verb (transitive) To put a phrase into a search engine, especially one besides Google. “I searched "Paris Hilton" and found lots of unflattering stories.”
  7. verb (transitive, obsolete) To probe or examine (a wound).
  8. verb (obsolete) To examine; to try; to put to the test.
  9. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

sweep comb look for scour seek hunt hunting lookup look research explore

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English serchen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman sercher, Old French cerchier, from Late Latin circō, ,circāre (“to circle; go around; search for”), from circus. Unrelated to German suchen, which is cognate with English seek.

Variant of Surridge.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To look over or through, for the purpose of finding something; to examine; to explore; as, to search the city. "Search the Scriptures." John v. 39.
  2. verb To inquire after; to look for; to seek.
  3. verb To seek; to look for something; to make inquiry, exploration, or examination; to hunt.
  4. noun The act of seeking or looking for something; quest; inquiry; pursuit for finding something; examination.

Etymology [OE. serchen, cerchen, OF. cerchier, F. chercher, L. circare to go about, fr. L. circum, circa, around. See Circle.]

Etymology [Cf. OF. cerche. See Search, v. t.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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