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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maneuver

UK /məˈnuːvə/ · US /məˈnuvɚ/ noun, verb

Forms maneuvers maneuvering maneuvered manoeuvre manœuvre maneuvre manoeuver manœuver

  1. noun (military) The planned movement of troops, vehicles etc.; a strategic repositioning; (later also) a large training field-exercise of fighting units. “The army was on maneuvers.”
  2. noun Any strategic or cunning action; a stratagem.
  3. noun A movement of the body, or with an implement, instrument etc., especially one performed with skill or dexterity.
  4. noun (medicine) A specific medical or surgical movement, often eponymous, done with the doctor's hands or surgical instruments. “The otorhinolaryngologist performed an Epley maneuver and the patient was relieved of his vertigo.”
  5. noun A controlled (especially skillful) movement taken while steering a vehicle. “Parallel parking can be a difficult maneuver.”
  6. verb (ambitransitive) To move (something, or oneself) carefully, and often with difficulty, into a certain position.
  7. verb (figurative, transitive) To guide, steer, manage purposefully
  8. verb (figurative, intransitive) To intrigue, manipulate, plot, scheme “The patriarch maneuvered till his offspring occupied countless key posts”

Synonyms

ease wrestle manoeuvre simulated military operation tactic tactics play tactical maneuver tactical manoeuvre evasive action steer manoeuver direct point head guide channelize channelise operate

Etymology

From Middle French manœuvre (“manipulation, maneuver”) and manouvrer (“to maneuver”), from Old French manovre (“handwork, manual labor”), from Medieval Latin manopera, manuopera (“work done by hand, handwork”), from manu (“by hand”) + operari (“to work”). First recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne (800 AD) to mean "chore, manual task", probably as a calque of the Frankish *handuwerk (“hand-work”). Compare Old English handweorc, Old English handġeweorc, German Handwerk. The verb is a doublet of the verb manure.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Management; dexterous movement; specif., a military or naval evolution, movement, or change of position.
  2. noun Management with address or artful design; adroit proceeding; stratagem.
  3. verb To perform a movement or movements in military or naval tactics; to make changes in position with reference to getting advantage in attack or defense.
  4. verb To manage with address or art; to scheme.

Etymology [F. manoeuvre, OF. manuevre, LL. manopera, lit., hand work, manual labor; L.manus hand + opera, fr. opus work. See Manual, Operate, and cf. Mainor, Manure.]

Etymology [Cf. F. manoeuvrer. See Maneuver, n.]

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