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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bisect

/baɪˈsɛkt/ verb, noun

Forms bisects bisecting bisected

  1. verb (transitive) To cut or divide into two parts. “The river bisects the town.”
  2. verb (transitive, geometry) To divide an angle, line segment, or other figure into two equal parts.
  3. verb (computing) To perform a binary search on files in source control in order to identify the specific change that introduced a bug etc.
  4. noun (geometry) A bisector, which divides into two equal parts.
  5. noun (philately) An envelope, card, or fragment thereof showing an affixed cut half of a regular issued stamp, over which one or more postal markings have been applied. Typically used in wartime when normal lower rate stamps may not be available.

Synonyms

dichotomize dimidiate bipartition half halve

Antonyms

double

Etymology

From bi- (“bi-, two”) + Latin secāre (“to cut”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To cut or divide into two parts.
  2. verb To divide into two equal parts.

Etymology [L. bis twice + secare, sectum, to cut.]

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