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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ticket

/ˈtɪk.ɪt/ noun, verb

Forms tickets ticketing ticketed

  1. noun A pass entitling the holder to admission to a show, concert, sporting event, etc. “I've got two tickets for the match on Saturday; want to come?”
  2. noun A pass entitling the holder to board a train, a bus, a plane, or other means of transportation. “train ticket   bus ticket   plane ticket”
  3. noun A permit to operate a machine on a construction site.
  4. noun A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, etc. “lottery ticket   raffle ticket”
  5. noun A certificate of qualification as a ship's master, pilot, or other crew member.
  6. noun (figurative) A solution to a problem; something that is needed in order to do something. “That's the ticket.”
  7. noun A citation for a traffic violation.
  8. noun (usually technical support) A service request, used to track complaints or requests that an issue be handled.
  9. verb To issue someone a ticket, as for travel or for a violation of a local or traffic law.
  10. verb To mark with a ticket. “to ticket goods in a retail store”

Synonyms

license tag slate just the ticket fine

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Scots tikkat, tikket, from Middle French etiquet m, estiquet m, and etiquette f, estiquette f (“a bill, note, label, ticket”), from Old French estechier, estichier, estequier (“to attach, stick”), (compare Picard estiquier (“to stick, pierce”)), from Frankish *stikkjan, *stekan (“to stick, pierce, sting”), from Proto-Germanic *stikaną, *stikōną, *staikijaną (“to be sharp, pierce, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp, to stab”). Doublet of etiquette. More at stick.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something.
  2. verb To distinguish by a ticket; to put a ticket on; as, to ticket goods.
  3. verb To furnish with a tickets; to book; as, to ticket passengers to California. [U.S.]

Etymology [F. étiquette a label, ticket, fr. OF. estiquette, or OF. etiquet, estiquet; both of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. stick. See Stick, n. & v., and cf. Etiquette, Tick credit.]

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