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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camber

UK /ˈkæm.bə/ · US /ˈkæm.bɚ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms cambers cambering cambered cambre

  1. noun A slight convexity, arching or curvature of a surface of a road, beam, roof, ship's deck etc., so that liquids will flow off the sides.
  2. noun The slope of a curved road created to minimize the effect of centrifugal force.
  3. noun (architecture) An upward concavity in the underside of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch.
  4. noun (automotive) The alignment on the roll axis of the wheels of a road vehicle, where positive camber signifies that the wheels are closer together at the bottom than the top.
  5. noun (aviation) The curvature of an airfoil.
  6. noun (nautical) A small enclosed dock in which timber for masts (etc.) is kept to weather.
  7. verb To curve upwards in the middle.
  8. verb To adjust the camber of the wheels of a vehicle. “Because he cambered the tires too much, he had less control on the turns.”
  9. proper noun A coastal village and civil parish in Rother district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ9618).

Synonyms

crossfall bank cant

Etymology

From Old French cambre (“bent”), from Latin camurum, from camur (“arched”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An upward convexity of a deck or other surface; as, she has a high camber (said of a vessel having an unusual convexity of deck).
  2. noun An upward concavity in the under side of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch. See Hogback. Camber arch (Arch.), an arch whose intrados, though apparently straight, has a slightly concave curve upward.
  3. verb To cut bend to an upward curve; to construct, as a deck, with an upward curve.
  4. verb To curve upward.

Etymology [Of. cambre bent, curved; akin to F. cambrer to vault, to bend, fr. L. camerare to arch over, fr. camera vault, arch. See Chamber, and cf. Camerate.]

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