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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cyclone

UK /ˈsaɪ.kləʊn/ · US /ˈsaɪ.kloʊn/ noun, verb

Forms cyclones cycloning cycloned

  1. noun (loosely) Any weather phenomenon consisting of a system of winds rotating around a centre of low atmospheric pressure; a low pressure system.
  2. noun (specifically) A tropical cyclone occurring in the South Pacific or Indian Ocean.
  3. noun (informal) The more or less violent, small-scale circulations such as tornadoes, waterspouts, and dust devils.
  4. noun (informal) A strong wind.
  5. noun A cyclone separator; the cylindrical vortex tube within such a separator
  6. verb To separate using a cyclone separator.
  7. verb To storm as a cyclone.
  8. verb To whirl in spirals as a result of a cyclone or whirlwind-like force.
  9. verb To storm wildly; to be in a frenzy.

Synonyms

storm typhoon hurricane

Antonyms

anticyclone

Etymology

Coined by English scientist and merchant captain Henry Piddington, probably in the 1840s, and based on some term in Ancient Greek. Sources disagree on the date and on which Ancient Greek term, though it had to be something derived from either κύκλος (kúklos, “circle, wheel”) or κυκλόω (kuklóō, “go around in a circle, form a circle, encircle”), for example the present active participle κυκλῶν (kuklôn). See cycle and wheel.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A violent storm, often of vast extent, characterized by high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure. This center moves onward, often with a velocity of twenty or thirty miles an hour.
  2. noun A cellar or excavation used for refuge from a cyclone, or tornado. [Middle U. S.]

Etymology [Gr. (Meteor.) Defn: A violent storm, often of vast extent, characterized by high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure. This center moves onward, often with a velocity of twenty or thirty miles an hour. Note: The atmospheric disturbance usually accompanying a cyclone, marked by an onward moving area of high pressure, is called an anticyclone. CYCLONE CELLAR; CYCLONE PIT Cyclone cellar or pit . Defn: A cellar or excavation used for refuge from a cyclone, or tornado. [Middle U. S.]

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