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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commute

UK /kəˈmjuːt/ · US /kəˈmjut/ verb, noun

Forms commutes commuting commuted

  1. verb To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen “to commute tithes into rentcharges for a sum”
  2. verb (transitive, finance, law) To pay, or arrange to pay, in advance, in a lump sum instead of part by part. “to commute the daily toll for a year's pass”
  3. verb (transitive, law, criminology) To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense. “His prison sentence was commuted to probation.”
  4. verb (transitive, insurance, pensions) To pay out the lumpsum present value of an annuity, instead of paying in instalments; to cash in; to encash
  5. verb (intransitive, obsolete) To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution;
  6. verb (intransitive, mathematics) Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result. “A pair of matrices share the same set of eigenvectors if and only if they commute.”
  7. noun A regular journey between two places, typically home and work.
  8. noun The route, time or distance of that journey.
  9. verb (intransitive, US, UK, Canada) To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa. “I commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan by bicycle.”
  10. verb (intransitive, Philippines) To regularly travel from one place to another using public transport.
  11. verb (intransitive) To journey, to make a journey

Synonyms

transpose permute convert exchange change

Etymology

From commutation ticket, a pass on a railroad, streetcar line, etc. that permitted multiple rides over a period of time, e.g. a month, for a single, commuted payment.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single thing for an aggregate; hence; to lessen; to diminish; as, to commute a sentence of death to one of imprisonment for life; to commute tithes; to commute charges for fares.
  2. verb To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation.
  3. verb To pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part; as, to commute for a year's travel over a route.

Etymology [L. commutare, -mutatum; com- + mutare to change. See Mutation.]

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