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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works

UK /wɜːks/ · US /wɝks/ noun, proper noun

Also a form of work

  1. noun A factory or factories, or a similar collection(s) of industrial facilities. “The steel works almost fills the valley.”
  2. noun A mechanism or machinery; the means by which something happens. “Aged and degraded oil and grease can really gum up the works.”
  3. noun (with "the") Everything or everything that is available or possible; especially, all available toppings on food. “I'll have a Behemoth Burger with the works.”
  4. noun (with "the") Drastic treatment; abuse; the axe (dismissal).
  5. noun (slang) A heroin or other drug addict's equipment: syringes, needles, etc.
  6. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

all the marbles bag and baggage everytang everything but the galley stove everything but the kitchen sink everything under the sun full monty hook line and sinker kit and caboodle lock stock and barrel the whole bang shoot the whole nine yards the works whole ball of wax whole hog whole enchilada whole kit and caboodle whole package plant industrial plant whole shebang whole kit and boodle kit and boodle whole kit whole caboodle whole works full treatment deeds

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “works”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

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

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