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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fixed

/fɪkst/ adjective

Also a form of fix

  1. adjective Attached; affixed.
  2. adjective Unable to move; unmovable.
  3. adjective Unable to change or vary. “fixed assets”
  4. adjective Unlikely to change; stable.
  5. adjective (chemistry) Chemically stable.
  6. adjective Supplied with what one needs. “She's nicely fixed after two divorce settlements.”
  7. adjective (law, of sound) Recorded on a permanent medium. “In the United States, recordings are only granted copyright protection when the sounds in the recording were fixed and first published on or after February 15, 1972.”
  8. adjective (dialectal, informal) Surgically rendered sterile (e.g. spayed, neutered, or castrated). “a fixed tomcat”

Synonyms

bound connected joined immobile unmoveable unmovable immotile immovable inanimate inert lifeless sessile static rigid stationary stuck invariable bateless immutable inalterable set frozen

Antonyms

mobile moveable movable ambulatory animate kinetic motile motive vagile variable abateable alterable unfixed

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Securely placed or fastened; settled; established; firm; imovable; unalterable.
  2. adjective Stable; non-volatile. Fixed air (Old Chem.), carbonic acid or carbon dioxide; --so called by Dr. Black because it can be absorbed or fixed by strong bases. See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic.

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “fixed” (best matches first).

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