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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centrifugal

UK /ˌsɛn.tɹɪˈfjuː.ɡl̩/ · US /sɛnˈtɹɪf.(j)ə.ɡl̩/ adjective, noun

Forms centrifugals

  1. adjective Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
  2. adjective (botany) Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.
  3. adjective (botany) Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos.
  4. noun A rotating machine used to separate massecuite into sugar crystals and molasses.

Synonyms

motor

Antonyms

centripetal

Etymology

From New Latin centrifugālis, coined by Christiaan Huygens from Latin centrum (“center”) + fugiō (“to flee”) + -al.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
  2. adjective (a) Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.
  3. noun A centrifugal machine.

Etymology [L. centrum center + fugere to flee.]

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