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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dormant

UK /ˈdɔːmənt/ · US /ˈdoɹmənt/ adjective, noun

Forms dormants dormaunt dormient

  1. adjective Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended. “Grass goes dormant during the winter, waiting for spring before it grows again.”
  2. adjective (heraldry) In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant. “a lion dormant”
  3. adjective (architecture) Leaning.
  4. noun (architecture) A crossbeam or joist.

Synonyms

quiescent hibernating torpid inactive sleeping abeyant

Antonyms

antonym(s) of “inactive suspended” active extinct

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin dormiēns, present participle of dormiō (“to sleep”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Sleeping; as, a dormant animal; hence, not in action or exercise; quiescent; at rest; in abeyance; not disclosed, asserted, or insisted on; as, dormant passions; dormant claims or titles.
  2. adjective In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; --distinguished from couchant. Dormant partner (Com.), a partner who takes no share in the active business of a company or partnership, but is entitled to a share of the profits, and subject to a share in losses; --called also sleeping or silent partner.
  3. noun A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of the other timbers rest or " sleep." Arch. Pub. Soc.

Etymology [F., p. pr. of dormir to sleep, from L. dormire; cf. Gr. dra, OSlav. dr.]

Etymology [See Dormant, a.]

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