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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

tract

/tɹækt/ noun, verb

Forms tracts tracting tracted

  1. noun An area or expanse. “an unexplored tract of sea”
  2. noun (anatomy) A series of connected body organs, such as the digestive tract.
  3. noun A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses.
  4. noun A brief treatise or discourse on a subject.
  5. noun A commentator's view or perspective on a subject.
  6. noun Continued or protracted duration, length, extent
  7. noun (Roman Catholicism) Part of the proper of the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist for many Christian denominations, used instead of the alleluia during Lenten or pre-Lenten seasons, in a Requiem Mass, and on a few other penitential occasions.
  8. noun (obsolete) Continuity or extension of anything.
  9. verb (obsolete) To pursue, follow; to track.
  10. verb (obsolete) To draw out; to protract.
  11. verb (transitive, obsolete) To treat, discourse, negotiate.

Synonyms

system piece of land piece of ground parcel of land parcel pamphlet nerve pathway nerve tract pathway

Etymology

From Middle English tract, tracte, traht (“a treatise, exposition, commentary”), from Old English traht, tract (“a treatise, exposition, commentary, text, passage”); and also from Middle English tract, tracte (“an expanse of space or time”); both from Latin tractus (“a haul, drawing, a drawing out”), the perfect passive participle of trahō. Doublet of trait.

From Latin tractus, the participle stem of trahere (“to pull, drag”).

From Latin tractāre, from tractō, from trahō + -tō.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A written discourse or dissertation, generally of short extent; a short treatise, especially on practical religion.
  2. noun Something drawn out or extended; expanse. "The deep tract of hell." Milton.
  3. noun A region or quantity of land or water, of indefinite extent; an area; as, an unexplored tract of sea. A very high mountain joined to the mainland by a narrowtract of earth. Addison.
  4. verb To trace out; to track; also, to draw out; to protact. [Obs.]

Etymology [Abbrev.fr. tractate.]

Etymology [L. tractus a drawing, train, track, course, tract of land, from trahere tractum, to draw. Senses 4 and 5 are perhaps due to confusion with track. See Trace,v., and cf. Tratt.]

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

Sanskrit

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