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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crossover

noun, adjective, proper noun

Forms crossovers

  1. noun A place where one thing crosses over another.
  2. noun The means by which the crossing is made.
  3. noun (genetics) The result of the exchange of genetic material during meiosis.
  4. noun A blend of multiple styles of music or multiple film genres, intended to appeal to a wider audience.
  5. noun (sometimes derogatory) An SUV-like automobile built on a passenger car platform, e.g. the Buick Enclave.
  6. noun (rail transport) A pair of switches and a short, diagonal length of track which together connect two parallel tracks and allow passage between them.
  7. noun A piece of fiction that borrows elements from two or more fictional universes.
  8. noun (sports) An athlete or swimmer who has competed in more than one of open water swimming, pool swimming, triathlon, and endurance sports.
  9. adjective Of an electrical cable, having connector pins at one end wired to different pins at the other; for example, pin 1 to pin 2, pin 2 to pin 4 etc.; contrasted with straight-through.
  10. adjective (in particular, computing, of an Ethernet cable) Configured so that the transmit signals at one end are connected to the receive signals at the other.
  11. proper noun A locality in the Shire of Baw Baw, south eastern Victoria, Australia.

Synonyms

CUV XUV crossing over crossover voter crossing crosswalk

Etymology

Deverbal from cross over.

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