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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crosscut

UK /ˈkɹɒskʌt/ · US /ˈkɹɔskʌt/ noun, verb

Forms crosscuts crosscutting cross-cut

  1. noun A crosswise cut.
  2. noun A shortcut.
  3. noun An instance of filmic crosscutting.
  4. noun A crosscut saw.
  5. noun (mining) A tunnel or level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another through the country rock.
  6. verb To cut across something.
  7. verb To cut (wood, lumber) across the grain.
  8. verb (film) To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes.
  9. verb (software engineering) To affect several modules of a program, without the possibility of being encapsulated in any one of them. See Cross-cutting concern.

Synonyms

shortcut cutoff cut across

Etymology

From cross- + cut.

Webster’s 1913

  1. , v. t. To cut across or through; to intersect.
  2. noun A short cut across; a path shorter than by the high road.
  3. noun A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another. Crosscut saw. (a) A saw, the teeth of which are so set as to adapt it for sawing wood crosswise of the grain rather than lengthwise. (b) A saw managed by two men, one at each end, for cutting large logs crosswise.

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