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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abort

UK /əˈbɔːt/ · US /əˈbɔɹt/ noun, verb

Forms aborts aborting aborted

  1. noun (military, aeronautics) An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission. “We've had aborts on three of our last seven launches.”
  2. noun (computing) The function used to abort a process.
  3. noun (computing) An event in which a process is aborted. “We've had three aborts over the last two days.”
  4. noun (now rare) The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion.
  5. noun (obsolete) A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion.
  6. verb (intransitive, now rare outside medicine) To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely.
  7. verb (transitive, intransitive) To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.
  8. verb (transitive) To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.
  9. verb (intransitive) To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.
  10. verb (intransitive, biology) To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to cease organic growth before maturation; to become sterile.
  11. verb (transitive, biology) To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.
  12. verb (intransitive, military) To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion.
  13. verb (transitive, aeronautics) To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely.

Etymology

From Middle English, from Latin abortus, perfect active participle of aborior (“miscarry”), formed from ab + orior (“to come into being”). Doublet of abortus.

From Latin abortare, from abortus, from aboriri (“miscarry”), from ab- (“not”) + oriri (“come into being, arise, appear”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To miscarry; to bring forth young prematurely.
  2. verb To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to become sterile.
  3. noun An untimely birth. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.
  4. noun An aborted offspring. [Obs.] Holland.

Etymology [L. abortare, fr. abortus, p. p. of aboriri; ab + oriri to rise, to be born. See Orient.]

Etymology [L. abortus, fr. aboriri.]

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