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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knock off

verb

Also a form of knockoff

Forms knocks off knocking off knocked off knock offs

  1. verb (ditransitive) To remove (something or someone) by applying a strong force. “He was knocked off his bike.”
  2. verb (transitive) To remove, as a discount or estimate. “They agreed to knock off 20% of the price.”
  3. verb (transitive) To make a copy of, as of a design. “They send people to the shows in Milan for "ideas", which means knocking off the designs they guess would sell.”
  4. verb (transitive) To assign (an item) to a bidder at an auction, indicated by knocking on the counter.
  5. verb (transitive, informal) To accomplish hastily. “I knocked off a couple of quick sketches before the design meeting.”
  6. verb (ambitransitive, slang) To halt one's work or other activity. “I think I'll knock off for the evening and go to bed.”
  7. verb (transitive, slang) To kill. “The mobsters hired the guy to knock off their enemies.”
  8. verb (sports, by extension) To defeat. “The Hammers knocked off Arsenal on the strength of a 78th-minute tally from Jarrod Bowen.”

Synonyms

deduct take off abate bate remove subduct subtract take take away plagiarize rip off knock out call it a day call it a night down tools bump off do away with whack annihilate bag neutralize neutralise liquidate waste do in shave hook snitch thieve cop

Etymology

In the verb sense of stopping work, said to be from the practice aboard slave galleys to have a man beat time for the rowers by knocking on a block or drum; when he stopped, the rowers could rest.

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