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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adapter

UK /əˈdæptə(ɹ)/ · US /əˈdæptəɹ/ noun

Forms adapters adaptor

  1. noun One who is capable of adapting to differing situations. “He was an able adapter, and could easily adjust to the differences when the company changed ownership.”
  2. noun One who adapts a thing, e.g. a play. “The critic gave rave reviews to the adapter of the ancient play, who worked to give the text more relevance to the modern day.”
  3. noun A device or application used to achieve operative compatibility between devices that otherwise are incompatible. “He had an adapter that let him plug his phone into the car's cigarette lighter for power.”
  4. noun Specifically, a device that permits two or more plugs to be used at a single electrical power point.
  5. noun Specifically, a device that allows one format of plug to be used with a different format of socket.
  6. noun Specifically, an AC adapter: a device that reduces voltage and converts AC to DC to allow a battery-powered device to use mains power.
  7. noun (machine learning, artificial intelligence) A collection of low-rank matrices which, when added to a base model, produces a fine-tuned model; a LoRA.

Synonyms

arranger transcriber adaptor

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who adapts.
  2. noun A connecting tube; an adopter.

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