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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tangible

UK /ˈtæn.d͡ʒɪ.b(ə)l/ · US /ˈtæn.d͡ʒə.bəl/ adjective, noun

Forms tangibles

  1. adjective Touchable; able to be touched or felt; perceptible by the sense of touch.
  2. adjective Perceptible; able to be perceived.
  3. adjective Able to be treated as fact; real or concrete.
  4. adjective Comprehensible by the mind; understandable.
  5. noun A physical object; something that can be touched.
  6. noun Real or concrete results. “Yes, but what are the tangibles?”

Synonyms

palpable tactile touchable conspicuous detectable discernable noticeable observable perceivable perceptible sensable sensible actual bodily choical corporeal concrete hylic hylical material real

Antonyms

intangible

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French tangible, from Late Latin tangibilis, from Latin tangere (“to touch”)

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Perceptible to the touch; tactile; palpable. Bacon.
  2. adjective Capable of being possessed or realized; readily apprehensible by the mind; real; substantial; evident. "A tangible blunder." Byron.

Etymology [L. tangibilis, fr. tangere to touch: cf. F. tangible. See Tangent.]

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

Sanskrit

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