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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make out

/meɪk aʊt/ verb

Forms makes out making out made out

  1. verb To draw up (a document etc.), to designate (a cheque). [with to ‘a given recipient, payee’] “Cheques may be made out to the Foo Bar Company.”
  2. verb (obsolete) To send out.
  3. verb To discern; to manage to see, hear etc. “In the distance, I could just make out a shadowy figure.”
  4. verb (now chiefly US, regional, intransitive) To manage, get along; to do (well, badly etc.). “Oh, you were on a TV game show? How did you make out?”
  5. verb (ambitransitive) To represent; to make (something) appear to be true. “His version of the story makes me out (to be) the bad guy.”
  6. verb To get along with (someone). “Him and I always make out well.”
  7. verb To make an (often temporary) home. “I'll make out in this room for the night.”
  8. verb To embrace and kiss passionately. “We found a secluded spot where we could make out in private.”

Synonyms

detect spot squeeze neck grope touch up make whoopee descry make do buss goozer kiss lallygag lips lock lips osculate pash play tonsil hockey smooch snog recognize recognise distinguish discern pick out tell apart write out issue cut do

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