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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volley

UK /ˈvɒli/ · US /ˈvɑli/ noun, verb

Forms volleys volleying volleyed

  1. noun The simultaneous firing of a number of missiles or bullets; the projectiles so fired.
  2. noun A burst or emission of many things at once. “a volley of words”
  3. noun (sports) The flight of a ball just before it bounces.
  4. noun (sports) A shot in which the ball is played before it hits the ground.
  5. noun (cricket) A sending of the ball full to the top of the wicket.
  6. verb (transitive) To fire a volley of shots.
  7. verb (sports, transitive) To hit the ball before it touches the ground.
  8. verb (intransitive) To be fired in a volley.
  9. verb (sports, intransitive) To make a volley.
  10. verb To sound together.

Synonyms

fusillade salvo burst

Antonyms

ground stroke

Etymology

From Middle French volée (“flight”), from Vulgar Latin volta, from Late Latin volatus.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A flight of missiles, as arrows, bullets, or the like; the simultaneous discharge of a number of small arms.
  2. noun A burst or emission of many things at once; as, a volley of words.
  3. verb To discharge with, or as with, a volley.
  4. verb To be thrown out, or discharged, at once; to be discharged in a volley, or as if in a volley; to make a volley or volleys. Tennyson.

Etymology [F. volée; flight, a volley, or discharge of several guns, fr. voler to fly, L. volare. See Volatile.]

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