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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ambulatory

UK /ˌæm.bjəˈleɪ.tɹi/ · US /ˈam.bjə.ləˌtoɹ.i/ adjective, noun

Forms ambulatories

  1. adjective Of, relating to, or adapted to walking. “ambulatory exercise”
  2. adjective (comparable, medicine) Able to walk about and not bedridden. “an ambulatory patient”
  3. adjective (medicine) Performed on or involving an outpatient. “an ambulatory electrocardiogram”
  4. adjective (medicine) Relating to ambulances. “ambulatory fleet”
  5. adjective Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable. “an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places”
  6. adjective (law) Not yet legally fixed or settled; alterable. “The dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.”
  7. noun The semicircular walkway behind the altar and apse in many cathedrals.
  8. noun Any part of a building intended for walking in; a corridor.

Synonyms

astir up and about mobile animate kinetic motile motive movable vagile ambulant

Etymology

From Latin ambulatorius. By surface analysis, ambulate + -ory, or, by surface analysis, ambulator + -y.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory animal.
  2. adjective Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable; as, an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places.
  3. noun A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building.

Etymology [L. ambulatorius.]

Etymology [Cf. LL. ambulatorium.]

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