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

zone

UK /zəʊn/ · US /zoʊn/ noun, verb

Forms zones zoning zoned

  1. noun (geography, now rare) Each of the five regions of the earth's surface into which it was divided by climatic differences, namely the torrid zone (between the tropics), two temperate zones (between the tropics and the polar circles), and two frigid zones (within the polar circles).
  2. noun Any given region or area of the world.
  3. noun A given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc. “There is a no-smoking zone that extends 25 feet outside of each entrance.”
  4. noun (by extension) A restricted category or virtual place. “The discussion was veering off into a danger zone.”
  5. noun A band or area of growth encircling anything. “a zone of evergreens on a mountain”
  6. noun A band or stripe extending around a body.
  7. noun (crystallography) A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.
  8. noun (baseball, informal) The strike zone. “That pitch was low and away, just outside the zone.”
  9. verb (transitive) To divide into or assign to sections or areas. “Please zone off our staging area, a section for each group.”
  10. verb (transitive) To define the property use classification of (an area). “This area was zoned for industrial use.”
  11. verb (intransitive, slang) To enter a daydream state temporarily, for instance as a result of boredom, fatigue, or intoxication; to doze off. “I must have zoned while he was giving us the directions.”
  12. verb (transitive, archaic, poetic) To girdle or encircle.
  13. verb To assign to a restricted category. “We've zoned each other as friends; we'll never be anything more.”

Synonyms

area belt district region section sector sphere territory crease zone out doze off geographical zone zona partition

Etymology

From Latin zōna, from Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē, “girdle, belt”). Doublet of zona.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A girdle; a cincture. [Poetic]
  2. noun One of the five great divisions of the earth, with respect to latitude and temperature.
  3. verb To girdle; to encircle. [R.] Keats.

Etymology [F. zone, L. zona, Gr. j to gird, Zend yah.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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