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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boost

/buːst/ noun, verb

Forms boosts boosting boosted

  1. noun A push from behind or below, as to one who is endeavoring to climb.
  2. noun Something that helps, or adds power or effectiveness; assistance. “The controversy gave a boost to the author's sales.”
  3. noun (physics) A coordinate transformation that changes velocity.
  4. noun (automotive engineering, uncountable) A positive intake manifold pressure in cars with turbochargers or superchargers.
  5. verb (transitive) To lift or push from behind (one who is endeavoring to climb); to push up.
  6. verb (transitive, by extension) To help or encourage (something) to increase or improve; to assist in overcoming obstacles. “This campaign will boost your chances of winning the election.”
  7. verb (slang, transitive) To steal.
  8. verb (Canada, transitive) To jump-start a vehicle by using cables to connect the battery in a running vehicle to the battery in a vehicle that won't start.
  9. verb (transitive, medicine) To give a booster shot to.
  10. verb (transitive, engineering) To amplify; to signal boost.

Synonyms

encouragement rise hike cost increase hike up promote advance further encourage supercharge

Etymology

Unknown. The verb is first recorded 1815; the noun, 1825. Compare Scots boost (“to move; drive off; shoo away”), bost, boast (“to threaten; scold”), Middle English boosten, bosten (“to threaten”). Possible doublet of boast.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To lift or push from behind (one who is endeavoring to climb); to push up; hence, to assist in overcoming obstacles, or in making advancement. [Colloq. U. S.]
  2. noun A push from behind, as to one who is endeavoring to climb; help. [Colloq. U. S.]

Etymology [Cf. Boast, v. i.]

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