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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convex

UK /ˈkɒn.vɛks/ · US /ˈkɑn.vɛks/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms convexes convexing convexed

  1. adjective Curved or bowed outward like the outside of a bowl, circle, or sphere.
  2. adjective (functional analysis, not comparable, of a real-valued function on the reals) having an epigraph that is a convex set.
  3. adjective (geometry, not comparable, of a polygon) having no internal angles greater than 180 degrees.
  4. adjective (mathematics, not comparable, of a set in Euclidean space) arranged such that for any two points in the set, a straight line between the two points is contained within the set.
  5. noun Any convex body or surface.
  6. noun (gambling) A playing card made convex for use in cheating.
  7. noun (gambling) A small convex mirror used to cheat by observing other players' cards.
  8. verb (intransitive) To form a convex curve or surface; to become convex.
  9. verb (transitive) To cause to form a convex curve or surface; to make convex.
  10. verb (ambitransitive) To circulate or cause to circulate in a curved path; to cause or exhibit convection.

Synonyms

shiner bulging

Antonyms

concave

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French convexe, from Latin convexus (“arched”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Rising or swelling into a spherical or rounded form; regularly protuberant or bulging; --said of a spherical surface or curved line when viewed from without, in opposition to concave.
  2. noun A convex body or surface.

Etymology [L. convexus vaulted, arched, convex, concave, fr. convehere to bring together: cf. F. convexe. See Vehicle.]

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

Sanskrit

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