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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lockout

noun

Forms lockouts lock-out

  1. noun (labour) The opposite of a strike; a labor disruption where management refuses to allow workers into a plant to work even if they are willing.
  2. noun The action of installing a lock to keep someone out of an area, such as eviction of a tenant by changing the lock.
  3. noun (by extension) The exclusion of certain people from a place, event, situation, etc. “It's another front-row lockout for Mercedes on the starting grid of the Japanese Grand Prix.”
  4. noun The restriction of a population to a certain area, but allowing free movement within that region, in order to prevent the spread of disease. Compare lockdown.
  5. noun The situation of being locked out of a building. “a locksmith who is willing to deal with emergency lockouts”
  6. noun (computing) A situation where the system is not responding to input.
  7. noun (industrial operations) A safety device designed to prevent touching a moving part when it is under operation; a safety device to keep the power supply turned off during repairs; the standardized practice and method whereby such devices are deployed. “lockout–tagout”
  8. noun (weightlifting) The final portion of a weightlifting motion where all applicable limbs or joints are fully extended or "locked out".

Antonyms

strike walkout industrial peace industrial action labor action labour action lock-in

Etymology

Deverbal from lock out.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The closing of a factory or workshop by an employer, usually in order to bring the workmen to satisfactory terms by a suspension of wages.

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