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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alignment

/əˈlaɪn.mənt/ noun

Forms alignments alinement allignment alignement

  1. noun An arrangement of items in a line.
  2. noun The process of adjusting a mechanism such that its parts are aligned; the condition of having its parts so adjusted.
  3. noun An alliance of factions.
  4. noun (artificial intelligence) The goals and values of an artificial intelligence, considered relative to human ethical standards. “the alignment problem”
  5. noun (roleplaying games) One of a set number of moral positions or philosophies a character can take. “an alignment chart”
  6. noun (astronomy) The conjunction of two celestial objects.
  7. noun (transport) The precise route or course taken by a linear way (road, railway, footpath, etc.) between two points.
  8. noun (biology, bioinformatics) A way of arranging DNA, RNA or protein sequences in order to identify regions of similarity.

Synonyms

alliance coalition alinement conjunction

Antonyms

nonalignment

Etymology

From French alignement, by surface analysis, align + -ment.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also, the line of adjustment; esp., an imaginary line to regulate the formation of troops or of a squadron.
  2. noun The ground-plan of a railway or other road, in distinction from the grades or profile.

Etymology [F. alignement.]

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