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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half-time

noun, adjective, adverb

Forms half-times halftime half time

  1. noun (sports) The interval between the two halves of a sports match. “Let's get some pizza at half-time.”
  2. noun (sometimes attributive) Half or approximately half the number of hours usually worked in a specified period. “I'm following a half-time schedule this month.”
  3. noun (music) A tempo in which the rhythm is emphasized so that it seems to have half as many metric divisions (e.g. emphasizing the start of every other bar rather than every bar).
  4. noun (physics) The time taken for a physical quantity to halve the difference between its present value and its final value.
  5. adjective Pertaining to or characterized by half the usual duration.
  6. adverb In a half time manner. “I'm working half-time this month (two and a half days per week) before my maternity leave.”

Synonyms

part-time

Antonyms

full-time

Etymology

From half- + time.

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