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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service

UK /ˈsɜː.vɪs/ · US /ˈsɝ.vɪs/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms services servicing serviced seruice

  1. noun An act of being of assistance to someone. “I say I did him a service by ending our relationship – now he can freely pursue his career.”
  2. noun The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group. “Lancelot was at the service of King Arthur.”
  3. noun (elliptical, uncountable) Work as a member of the military. “Thank you for your service.”
  4. noun (with the) The military. “the service”
  5. noun (economics) The practice of providing assistance as economic activity. “Hair care is a service industry.”
  6. noun (business) Synonym of utility (“commodity provided on a continuous basis by a physical infrastructure network, such as electricity, water supply or sewerage”).
  7. noun A department in a company, organization, or institution.
  8. noun (computing) A function that is provided by one program or machine for another. “This machine provides the name service for the LAN.”
  9. verb (transitive) To serve. “They service the customer base.”
  10. verb (transitive) To perform maintenance. “He is going to service the car.”
  11. verb (public relations, transitive) To supply (media outlets) with press releases etc.
  12. verb (transitive) To make a repayment or pay interest (on a debt). “It continues to be laden with intense debt servicing costs.”
  13. verb (transitive, agriculture, euphemistic) To inseminate through sexual intercourse.
  14. verb (transitive, vulgar) To perform a sexual act upon. “He serviced her several times a week.”
  15. verb (transitive, military, euphemistic) To attack. “to service a target”
  16. noun Service tree.
  17. noun The sorb; the fruit of this tree.
  18. proper noun A surname.
  19. proper noun An unincorporated community in Crawford County, Missouri, United States.

Synonyms

military service forces utility be with attend wait on go to bed with sleep with religious service divine service armed service Robert William Service avail help table service servicing serve serving service of process overhaul inspection and repair

Antonyms

antonym(s) of disservice

Etymology

From Middle English servise, from Old English serfis, from Old French servise (French service), from the verb servir, from Latin servitium (compare Portuguese serviço, Italian servizio, Norman sèrvice, Spanish servicio), from servus (“servant; serf; slave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser-wo-s (“guardian”), possibly from *ser- (“watch over, protect”). Displaced native Old English þeġnung.

Properly, the tree that bears sorb fruit, from Middle English serves, plural of serve (“sorb apple, serviceberry”), from Old English syrfe, from Vulgar Latin *sorbea, from Latin sorbus (“service tree”). See sorb.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A name given to several trees and shrubs of the genus Pyrus, as Pyrus domestica and P. torminalis of Europe, the various species of mountain ash or rowan tree, and the American shad bush (see Shad bush, under Shad). They have clusters of small, edible, applelike berries. Service berry (Bot.), the fruit of any kind of service tree.
  2. noun A name given to several trees and shrubs of the genus Pyrus, as Pyrus domestica and P. torminalis of Europe, the various species of mountain ash or rowan tree, and the American shad bush (see Shad bush, under Shad). They have clusters of small, edible, applelike berries. Service berry (Bot.), the fruit of any kind of service tree.
  3. noun The act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the performance of labor for the benefit of another, or at another's command; attendance of an inferior, hired helper. slave, etc., on a superior, employer, master, or the like; also, spiritual obedience and love. "O God . . . whose service is perfect freedom." Bk. of Com. Prayer.
  4. noun The deed of one who serves; labor performed for another; duty done or required; office.

Etymology [Properly, the tree which bears serve, OE. serves, pl., service berries, AS. syrfe service tree; akin to L. sorbus.]

Etymology [OE. servise, OF. servise, service, F. service, from L. servitium. See Serve.]

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

Sanskrit

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