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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deflect

/dɪˈflɛkt/ verb

Forms deflects deflecting deflected

  1. verb (transitive) To make (something) deviate from its original path or position.
  2. verb (transitive, ball games) To touch the ball, often unwittingly, after a shot or a sharp pass, thereby making it unpredictable for the other players. “The defender deflected the cross into his own net.”
  3. verb (intransitive) To deviate from an original path or position.
  4. verb (transitive, figuratively) To avoid addressing (questions, criticism, etc.). “The Prime Minister deflected some increasingly pointed questions by claiming he had an appointment.”
  5. verb (transitive, figuratively) To divert (attention, etc.).
  6. verb (psychology) To redirect culpability to avoid it.

Synonyms

elude debar forefend forfend obviate avert head off stave off fend off avoid ward off bend turn away distract parry block

Etymology

From Latin deflecto, from de- (“away”) + flecto (“to bend”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To cause to turn aside; to bend; as, rays of light are often deflected.
  2. verb To turn aside; to deviate from a right or a horizontal line, or from a proper position, course or direction; to swerve.

Etymology [L. deflectere; de- + flectere to bend or turn. See Flexible.]

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