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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stripe

/stɹaɪp/ noun, verb

Forms stripes striping striped

  1. noun A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions. “zebra stripes”
  2. noun A long, relatively straight region against a different coloured background.
  3. noun (in the plural) The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.
  4. noun (informal) Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort. “persons of the same political stripe”
  5. noun A long, narrow mark left by striking someone with a whip or stick; a blow or lash with a whip, stick, or scourge.
  6. noun A slash cut into the flesh as a punishment.
  7. noun (weaving) A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
  8. noun Any of the balls marked with stripes in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the spots.
  9. verb (transitive) To mark with stripes.
  10. verb (transitive) To lash with a whip or strap.
  11. verb (transitive, computing) To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write.
  12. verb (transitive, television) To record (a time code) onto videotape.

Synonyms

band banding chevron stripes grade insignia streak bar

Etymology

From Middle English stripe, strype, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German strîpe, from Proto-West Germanic *strīpā, *strīpō, from Proto-Germanic *strīpô. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Striepe (“stripe, strip”), West Frisian stripe (“stripe”), Dutch streep (“stripe”), German Low German Striepe, Striep, Streep (“stripe”), German Streifen (“stripe, strip, band”), Danish stribe (“stripe”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A line, or long, narrow division of anything of a different color or structure from the ground; hence, any linear variation of color or structure; as, a stripe, or streak, of red on a green ground; a raised stripe.
  2. noun A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colors, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
  3. verb To make stripes upon; to form with lines of different colors or textures; to variegate with stripes.
  4. verb To strike; to lash. [R.]

Etymology [OD. strijpe a stripe, streak; akin to LG. stripe, D. streep, Dan. stribe, G. strief, striefen, MHG. striefen to glide, march.]

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

Sanskrit

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