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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center

/ˈsɛn.təː/ noun, adjective, verb, proper noun

Also a form of centre

Forms centers centering centered centre

  1. noun The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
  2. noun The point in the interior of a sphere that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
  3. noun The middle portion of something; the part well away from the edges.
  4. noun (obsolete) The innermost point of the Earth, or the Earth itself, as the center or foundation of the Universe; the center or foundation of the Universe abstractly.
  5. noun (geometry) The point on a line that is midway between the ends.
  6. noun (geometry) The point in the interior of any figure of any number of dimensions that has as its coordinates the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of all points on the perimeter of the figure (or of all points in the interior for a center of volume). “The centroid is one of the centres of a triangle”
  7. noun (geometry) A point on a triangle's plane that is in some sense in its middle. “There are several centers of a triangle such as its circumcenter, incenter, orthocenter and centroid.”
  8. noun A place, especially a building or complex, set aside for some specified function or activity. “shopping center, convention center, civic center, garment center, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Rockefeller Center”
  9. adjective Of, at, or related to a center.
  10. verb (transitive) To cause (an object) to occupy the center of an area. “He centered the heading of the document.”
  11. verb (transitive) To cause (some attribute, such as a mood or voltage) to be adjusted to a value which is midway between the extremes.
  12. verb (transitive) To give (something) a central basis.
  13. verb (intransitive) To concentrate on (something), to pay close attention to (something). “The plot centers on the life of a working-class family.”
  14. verb (engineering) To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.
  15. proper noun A surname.
  16. proper noun A statutory town in Rio Grande County and Saguache County, Colorado.
  17. proper noun An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Georgia.
  18. proper noun An unincorporated community in Howard County, Indiana.
  19. proper noun An unincorporated community in Jay County, Indiana.
  20. proper noun An unincorporated community in Warrick County, Indiana.

Synonyms

midpoint centroid center of gravity center of mass middle midst central centre heart eye center field centerfield kernel substance core essence gist heart and soul inwardness marrow meat nub pith sum nitty-gritty center of attention centre of attention nerve center nerve centre snapper

Antonyms

periphery right left

Etymology

From Middle English center, centre, from Middle French centre, from Latin centrum, from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron), from κεντεῖν (kenteîn, “to prick, goad”). Doublet of centrum.
* (group theory): In the notation Z(G), the letter Z derives from the German Zentrum (“center”).

From center.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or place.
  2. noun The middle or central portion of anything.
  3. To be placed in a center; to be central.
  4. To be collected to a point; to be concentrated; to rest on, or gather about, as a center.

Etymology [F. centre, fr. L. centrum, fr. round which a circle is described, fr. 1. A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or place. 2. The middle or central portion of anything. 3. A principal or important point of concentration; the nucleus around which things are gathered or to which they tend; an object of attention, action, or force; as, a center of attaction. 4. The earth. [Obs.]

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