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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flex

/flɛks/ noun, verb

Forms flexes flexing flexed

  1. noun (uncountable) Flexibility, pliancy.
  2. noun (countable) An act of flexing.
  3. noun (uncountable, chiefly UK, Ireland) Any flexible insulated electrical wiring.
  4. noun (countable) A flexible insulated electrical cord.
  5. noun (uncountable) Flexible ductwork, typically flexible plastic over a metal wire coil to shape a tube.
  6. noun (countable, geometry) A point of inflection.
  7. noun (countable, slang) An act or instance of flaunting something; a boast or brag; something considered impressive.
  8. verb (transitive, chiefly physics or biomechanics) To bend something. “The board flexes as you step on it.”
  9. verb (transitive) To repeatedly bend one of one's joints.
  10. verb (transitive) To move part of the body using one's muscles.
  11. verb (intransitive) To tighten the muscles for display of size or strength.
  12. verb (transitive, slang) To boast or brag about; to flaunt (something).
  13. verb (intransitive, slang) To flaunt one's superiority; to show off.

Synonyms

aura farm preen stunt boulevardier cut a wide swath cut it fat cut round exhibitionize figure away flamboast flaunt floss fluff one's feathers gallery high-side let one's nuts hang ostent ostentate showboat show away bend deform twist turn

Etymology

From Latin flexus, past participle of flecto (“to bend”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To bend; as, to flex the arm.
  2. noun Flax. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Etymology [L. flexus, p.p. of flectere to bend, perh. flectere and akin to falx sickle, E. falchion. Cf. Flinch.]

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