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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endpoint

noun, verb

Forms endpoints endpointing endpointed end point

  1. noun Either of the two points at the ends of a line segment.
  2. noun (linguistics, phonetics, speech recognition) The point in speech at which an utterance ends.
  3. noun (biology, medicine) A defined occurrence during the observation period of an experiment or study.
  4. noun (chemistry) The stage in a titration at which a change in the colour of an indicator indicates that no more titrant should be added.
  5. noun (networking, telecommunications) The entity at one end of a connection.
  6. noun (programming) Part of a system that serves as a hook, allowing third-party code to intercept and modify behaviour at that point.
  7. noun (mathematics) Either of the two nodes of a graph of degree 1.
  8. verb (transitive, linguistics, phonetics, speech recognition) To detect the endpoint of an utterance.
  9. verb (transitive, chemistry) To determine an endpoint in a titration process.

Synonyms

end point termination terminus

Etymology

From end + point.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “endpoint”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details