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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blur

UK /ˈblɜː/ · US /blɝ/ verb, noun, adjective

Forms blurs blurring blurred

  1. verb To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim. “to blur a photograph (by moving the camera while taking it)”
  2. verb To smear, stain or smudge. “to blur a manuscript (by handling it while damp)”
  3. verb (intransitive) To become indistinct.
  4. verb To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.
  5. verb (obsolete, transitive) To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.
  6. verb (graphical user interface, transitive) To transfer the input focus away from.
  7. verb (copyright law) To use a sign, image, expression, etc. sufficiently close to a trademarked one that it causes confusion between them.
  8. noun A smear, smudge or blot.
  9. noun Something that appears hazy or indistinct. “The surroundings went by in a blur.”
  10. noun (uncountable) Haziness, blurriness.
  11. noun (obsolete) A moral stain or blot.
  12. adjective (Singlish, Manglish) Lacking awareness; clueless or confused.

Synonyms

fuzz pixelate smooth besmear blot tarnish assoil beclart bedaub bedirty imbrue (especially with blood) bedizen befile befilth befoul begrime beray beshit besmirch besully film over glaze over confuse obscure obnubilate smear smudge smutch blear dim

Antonyms

sharpen focus

Etymology

From earlier blurre, probably an alteration of blear, from Middle English bleren, from Old English *blerian (attested in āblered (“made bare, made bald”)), from Proto-West Germanic *blaʀjan, from Proto-Germanic *blazjaną (“to make pale”), from Proto-Germanic *blasaz (“pale”). Compare Scots blore, bloar (“to blur, cover with blots”), Low German bleeroged (“blear-eyed”). More at blear.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manuscript by handling it while damp; to blur the impression of a woodcut by an excess of ink. But time hath nothing blurred those lines of favor Which then he wore. Shak.
  2. verb To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.
  3. noun That which obscures without effacing; a stain; a blot, as upon paper or other substance.
  4. noun A dim, confused appearance; indistinctness of vision; as, to see things with a blur; it was all blur.

Etymology [Prob. of same origin as blear. See Blear.]

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