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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visual

UK /ˈvɪʒuːəl/ · US /ˈvɪʒuəl/ adjective, noun

Forms visuals visuall

  1. adjective Related to or affecting the vision.
  2. adjective (obsolete) That can be seen; visible.
  3. noun Any element of something that depends on sight.
  4. noun An image; a picture; a graphic.
  5. noun (in the plural) All the visual elements of a multimedia presentation or entertainment, usually in contrast with normal text or audio.
  6. noun (advertising) A preliminary sketch.
  7. noun (music) Any element of a show done by a marching band besides the marching and playing of instruments. “The visual where the trombone all threw their instruments into the air looked good.”
  8. noun (usually plural, slang) A hallucination perceived as seen by the eyes, such as from psilocybin.

Synonyms

ocular optic optical

Etymology

From Middle English visual, from French visuel, visual and directly from Late Latin vīsuālis (“of sight”), from vīsus (“sight, vision”) + -ālis (“adjective suffix”), from vidēre (“to see, perceive; look (at)”); see visage. By surface analysis, Latin vīsus + -ual.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to sight; used in sight; serving as the instrument of seeing; as, the visual nerve.
  2. adjective That can be seen; visible. [R.] Visual angle. (Opt.) See under Angle.

Etymology [L. visualis, from visus a seeing, sight: cf. F. visuel. See Vision.]

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

Sanskrit

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