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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working

UK /ˈwɜːkɪŋ/ · US /ˈwɝkɪŋ/ noun, adjective, proper noun

Also a form of work

Forms workings

  1. noun (usually in the plural) Operation; action.
  2. noun Method of operation.
  3. noun (arithmetic) The incidental or subsidiary calculations performed in solving an overall problem. “Be sure to check your working.”
  4. noun Fermentation.
  5. noun (of bodies of water) Becoming full of a vegetable substance.
  6. noun A place where work is carried on. “the abandoned mine workings”
  7. noun (countable) A train movement.
  8. adjective That is or are functioning. “a working ventilator”
  9. adjective That suffices but requires additional work; provisional. “a working copy of the script”
  10. adjective In paid employment. “Working mothers have recently joined the factory's workforce.”
  11. adjective Of or relating to employment. “the working week”
  12. adjective Enough to allow one to use something. “have a working knowledge of computers”
  13. adjective Used in real life; practical. “The working minimum focus distance is the distance from the closest focusable subject to the lens.”
  14. adjective (obsolete) Efficacious.
  15. proper noun A surname from German.

Synonyms

functioning draft employed work basic up: provisional temporary in employment workings on the job running operative functional

Antonyms

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Etymology

From Middle English werking, werkynge, warkynge, worchinge, from Old English wyrċing (“working”), verbal noun of wyrċan (“to work”), equivalent to work + -ing. Cognate with Scots wirking, warking, Dutch werking, German Wirkung.

From Middle English workyng, wirkynge, worchinge, werchinge, workinde, wirkand, worchende, wurchende, from Old English wyrċende, from Proto-Germanic *wurkijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (“to work”), equivalent to work + -ing. Compare Scots wirkand, werkand, warkand (“working”), Dutch werkend (“working, acting”), German wirkend (“acting, working”).

Probably an Americanized form of German Werking.

Webster’s 1913

  1. a & n. from Work.

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

Sanskrit

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

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