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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sub

/sʌb/ verb, preposition

Forms subs subbing subbed

  1. verb (US, informal) To substitute for.
  2. verb (US, informal) To work as a substitute teacher, especially in primary and secondary education.
  3. verb (UK, informal, soccer) To replace (a player) with a substitute. “He never really made a contribution to the match, so it was no surprise when he was subbed at half time.”
  4. verb (UK, informal, soccer, less common, often as "sub on") To bring on (a player) as a substitute. “He was subbed on half way through the second half, and scored within minutes.”
  5. verb (UK) To perform the work of a subeditor or copy editor; to subedit.
  6. verb (slang, Internet, transitive) To subtitle (usually a film or television program).
  7. verb (UK, slang, transitive) To lend (a person) money.
  8. verb (slang, intransitive) To subscribe.
  9. preposition Under.
  10. verb To coat with a layer of adhering material; to planarize by means of such a coating.
  11. verb (microscopy) To prepare (a slide) with a layer of transparent substance to support and/or fix the sample.

Synonyms

see submarine sandwich CC S bomber grinder hero hero sandwich hoagie hoagy Cuban sandwich Italian sandwich poor boy submarine submarine sandwich torpedo wedge zep pigboat U-boat substitute stand in fill in

Etymology

* Shortened form of any of various words beginning with sub-.

From Latin sub.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A subordinate; a subaltern. [Colloq.]

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

Sanskrit

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