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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interchange

UK /ɪntə(ɹ)ˈtʃeɪndʒ/ · US /ɪntɚˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ/ verb, noun

Forms interchanges interchanging interchanged

  1. verb (transitive) to switch (each of two things) “to interchange places”
  2. verb (transitive) to mutually give and receive (something); to exchange
  3. verb (intransitive) to swap or change places
  4. verb (transitive) to alternate; to intermingle or vary “to interchange cares with pleasures”
  5. verb (transport) To act as or carry out an interchange (noun, senses 2, 3).
  6. noun (countable, uncountable) An act of interchanging.
  7. noun (countable) A highway junction in which traffic may change from one road to another without crossing a stream of traffic.
  8. noun (countable) A junction in which traffic may merge to enter or diverge to exit a limited-access highway to access a surface street, without crossing traffic on the main highway.
  9. noun (rail transport, countable) A connection between two or more lines, services or modes of transport; a station at which such a connection can be made. “Holborn tube station is the only interchange between the London Underground Central and Piccadilly Lines.”
  10. noun A back-and-forth interaction; an exchange.

Synonyms

exchange swap trade mix reciprocation give-and-take substitute replace change counterchange transpose tack switch alternate flip flip-flop

Antonyms

outerchange

Etymology

From Old French entrechange, by surface analysis, inter- + change.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To put each in the place of the other; to give and take mutually; to exchange; to reciprocate; as, to interchange places; they interchanged friendly offices and services.
  2. verb To cause to follow alternately; to intermingle; to vary; as, to interchange cares with pleasures.
  3. verb To make an interchange; to alternate. Sir P. Sidney.
  4. noun The act of mutually changing; the act of mutually giving and receiving; exchange; as, the interchange of civilities between two persons. "Interchange of kindnesses." South.

Etymology [OE. entrechangen, OF. entrechangier. See Inter-, and Change.]

Etymology [Cf. OF. entrechange.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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