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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shadowing

UK /ˈʃædəʊɪŋ/ · US /ʃædoʊɪŋ/ noun

Also a form of shadow

Forms shadowings

  1. noun The effect of being shadowed (in the sense of blocked), as from a light source or radio transmission.
  2. noun The situation where a person repeats speech immediately as they hear it (usually through earphones).
  3. noun (espionage) Secretly or discreetly tracking or following someone, keeping under surveillance.
  4. noun A faint representation; an adumbration.
  5. noun (computing) The technique of copying ROM contents to RAM to allow for shorter access times. The ROM chip is then disabled while the initialized memory locations are switched in on the same block of addresses.
  6. noun (education) A work experience option where students learn about a job by walking through the work day as a shadow to a competent worker.

Synonyms

tailing

Etymology

From shadow (verb) + -ing (suffix forming nouns denoting the act of doing something, an action, or the embodiment of an action; or forming present participles of verbs).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Shade, or gradation of light and color; shading. Feltham.
  2. noun A faint representation; an adumbration.

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

Sanskrit

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