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

“segments” is a form of

segment

/ˈsɛɡ.mənt/ noun, verb

Forms segments segmenting segmented

  1. noun A length of some object. “a segment of rope”
  2. noun One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion. “a segment of an orange; a segment of a compound or divided leaf”
  3. noun A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them; a line segment.
  4. noun (geometry) The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).
  5. noun (geometry) The part of a sphere cut off by a plane.
  6. noun (topology) Any of the pieces that constitute an order tree.
  7. noun (phonology) A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.
  8. noun (botany) A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.
  9. verb (ambitransitive) To divide into segments or sections. “Segment the essay by topic.”

Synonyms

cleft clove lith line segment circular segment section

Etymology

From Latin segmentum (“a piece cut off, a strip, segment of the earth, a strip of tinsel”), from secāre (“to cut”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion; as, a segment of an orange; a segment of a compound or divided leaf.
  2. noun A part cut off from a figure by a line or plane; especially, that part of a circle contained between a chord and an arc of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord; as, the segment acb in the Illustration.
  3. verb To divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo segmentation, or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the ovum.

Etymology [L. segmentum, fr. secare to cut, cut off: cf. F. segment. See Saw a cutting instrument.]

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

Sanskrit

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