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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closing

UK /ˈkləʊzɪŋ/ · US /ˈkloʊzɪŋ/ noun, adjective

Also a form of close

Forms closings

  1. noun The act by which something is closed. “openings and closings of doors”
  2. noun The end or conclusion of something. “the closing of a popular play”
  3. noun The final procedure in a house sale, when documents are signed and recorded.
  4. noun (mathematics) In morphology, the erosion of the dilation of a set.
  5. adjective Pertaining to the finish or ending of a series of events; occurring at the end or after all others. “I'd like to add some closing words.”

Synonyms

latter shutting conclusion end close ending closure closedown shutdown completion culmination windup mop up

Antonyms

opening

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “closing”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “closing” (best matches first).

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