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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veer

UK /vɪə̯/ · US /vɪ(ə)ɹ/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms veers veering veered

  1. verb (obsolete, nautical) To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.
  2. noun A turn or swerve; an instance of veering.
  3. verb (intransitive) To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve. “The car slid on the ice and veered out of control.”
  4. verb (intransitive, of the wind) To shift in a clockwise direction (if in the Northern Hemisphere, or in a counterclockwise direction if in the Southern Hemisphere).
  5. verb (intransitive, nautical, of the wind) To shift aft.
  6. verb (intransitive, nautical) To change direction into the wind; to wear ship.
  7. verb (transitive) To turn.
  8. noun (Cornwall) A piglet or a heifer.
  9. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

swerve sheer curve trend slue slew cut

Antonyms

back haul forward

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Dutch vieren (“to slacken”).

Borrowed from Middle French virer.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To change direction; to turn; to shift; as, wind veers to the west or north. "His veering gait." Wordsworth.
  2. verb To direct to a different course; to turn; to wear; as, to veer, or wear, a vessel. To veer and haul (Naut.), to pull tight and slacken alternately. Totten.

Etymology [F. virer (cf. Sp. virar, birar), LL. virare; perhaps fr. L. vibrare to brandish, vibrate (cf. Vibrate); or cf. L. viriae armlets, bracelets, viriola a little bracelet (cf. Ferrule). Cf. Environ.]

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