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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binary

UK /ˈbaɪ.nə.ɹɪ/ · US /ˈbaɪ.nə.ɹi/ adjective, noun

Forms binaries

  1. adjective Being in one of two mutually exclusive states. “Binary states are often represented as 1 and 0 in computer science.”
  2. adjective (logic) Concerning logic whose subject matter concerns such states.
  3. adjective (arithmetic, computing) Concerning numbers and calculations using the binary number system.
  4. adjective Having two equally important parts; related to something with two parts. “binary star”
  5. adjective (mathematics, programming, computer engineering) Of an operation, function, procedure, or logic gate, taking exactly two operands, arguments, parameters, or inputs; having domain of dimension 2. “Division of reals is a binary operation.”
  6. adjective (computing) Of data, consisting coded values (e.g. machine code) not interpretable as plain or ASCII text (e.g. source code). “He downloaded the binary distribution for Linux, then burned it to DVD.”
  7. adjective (comparable) Focusing on two mutually exclusive conditions. “He has a very binary understanding of gender.”
  8. adjective (biology, sociology) Having or pertaining to a gender identity represented by the gender binary; either male or female.
  9. noun A state in which only two values are possible, in which something must have one value or the other.
  10. noun (mathematics, computing, uncountable) The bijective base-2 numeral system, which uses only the digits 0 and 1.

Synonyms

Boolean base-2 dyadic double twin dual twofold gender-binary black-and-white base 2 double star binary star binary program

Antonyms

plain text non-binary text file

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English binarie. By surface analysis, bin- + -ary.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Compounded or consisting of two things or parts; characterized by two (things). Binary arithmetic, that in which numbers are expressed according to the binary scale, or in which two figures only, 0 and 1, are used, in lieu of ten; the cipher multiplying everything by two, as in common arithmetic by ten. Thus, 1 is one; 10 is two; 11 is three; 100 is four, etc. Davies & Peck.
  2. noun That which is constituted of two figures, things, or parts; two; duality. Fotherby.

Etymology [L. binarius, fr. bini two by two, two at a time, fr. root of bis twice; akin to E. two: cf. F. binaire.]

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