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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unwind

/ʌnˈwaɪnd/ verb, noun

Forms unwinds unwinding unwound

  1. verb (transitive) To separate (something that is wound up) “to unwind a ball of yarn”
  2. verb (transitive, obsolete) To disentangle
  3. verb (intransitive, colloquial) To relax; to chill out; to rest and become relieved of stress “After work, I like to unwind by smoking a pipe while reading the paper.”
  4. verb (intransitive) To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted.
  5. verb (transitive, finance) To close out a position, especially a complicated position.
  6. verb (transitive, finance) To undo something.
  7. verb (transitive, programming) To navigate back through (a call stack) so as to generate a stack trace etc.
  8. verb (transitive, programming, software compilation) Synonym of unroll (“replace a loop with a sequence”).
  9. noun Any mechanism or operation that unwinds something.

Synonyms

untwist untwine unroll wind off disentangle relax loosen up unbend decompress slow down unstrain unlax make relaxed

Antonyms

wind

Etymology

From Middle English unwinden, from Old English unwindan (“to unwind; unwrap”), from Proto-Germanic *andawindaną (“to unwind”); equivalent to un- + wind (“to coil”). Cognate with Dutch ontwinden (“to unwind”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To wind off; to loose or separate, as what or convolved; to untwist; to untwine; as, to unwind thread; to unwind a ball of yarn.
  2. verb To disentangle. [Obs.] Hooker.
  3. verb To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted.

Etymology [AS. unwindan. See 1st Un-, and Wind to coil.]

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