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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dropper

UK /ˈdɹɒp.ə/ · US /ˈdɹɑ.pɚ/ noun

Forms droppers

  1. noun A utensil for dispensing a single drop of liquid at a time.
  2. noun One who drops something, especially one who drops a specific item to cause mischief. “The dropper left the suitcase with the bomb next to the garbage can.”
  3. noun (computing) A software component designed to install malware on a target system.
  4. noun (fishing) A fly that drops from the leaden above the bob or end fly.
  5. noun (mining) A branch vein which drops off from, or leaves, the main lode.
  6. noun (botany) The young bulb of a tulip, not of flowering size.
  7. noun A dog which suddenly drops upon the ground when it sights game.
  8. noun (Australia) A batten fixed to a post-and-wire fence to keep the wires apart.

Synonyms

eye dropper

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, drops. Specif.: (Fishing) A fly that drops from the leaden above the bob or end fly.
  2. noun A dropping tube.

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