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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enfilade

UK /ˌɛnfəlˈeɪd/ · US /ˈɛnfəlˌeɪd/ noun, verb

Forms enfilades enfilading enfiladed

  1. noun A line or straight passage, or the position of that which lies in a straight line.
  2. noun Gunfire directed along the length of a target.
  3. noun (architecture) A series of doors that provide a vista when open.
  4. verb (transitive) To rake (something) with gunfire.
  5. verb (figuratively, transitive) To be directed toward (something) like enfilading gunfire.
  6. verb (architecture, transitive) To arrange (rooms or other structures) in a row.

Synonyms

flanking fire raking fire flank enfilade fire

Antonyms

defilade

Etymology

Borrowed from French enfilade.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A line or straight passage, or the position of that which lies in a straight line. [R.]
  2. noun A firing in the direction of the length of a trench, or a line of parapet or troops, etc.; a raking fire.
  3. verb To pierce, scour, or rake with shot in the direction of the length of, as a work, or a line of troops. Campbell.

Etymology [F., fr. enfiler to thread, go trough a street or square, rake with shot; pref. en- (L. in) + fil thread. See File a row.]

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