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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median

UK /ˈmiː.di.ən/ · US /ˈmi.di.ən/ noun, adjective, proper noun

Forms medians Medean

  1. noun (anatomy, now rare) A central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through the forearm and arm.
  2. noun (geometry) A line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side.
  3. noun (statistics) A number separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, population, or probability distribution. The median of a finite list of numbers can be found by arranging all the observations from lowest value to highest value and picking the middle one (e.g., the median of {3, 3, 5, 9, 11} is 5). If there is an even number of observations, then there is no single middle value; the median is then usually defined to be the mean of the two middle values.
  4. noun (US) The area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic.
  5. adjective (anatomy) Situated in a middle, central, or intermediate part, section, or range of (something).
  6. adjective (anatomy, botany) In the middle of an organ, structure etc.; towards the median plane of an organ or limb.
  7. adjective (statistics) Having the median as its value.
  8. adjective Relating to Media or Medes.
  9. adjective (obsolete) Of laws, rules etc.: unchanging, invariable.
  10. noun A Mede.
  11. proper noun The northwestern Old Iranian language of the Medes, attested only by numerous loanwords in Old Persian, few borrowings in Old Armenian and some glosses in Ancient Greek; nothing is known of its grammar.

Synonyms

median strip central reservation reservation Medic median value average medial

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French median, from Latin mediānus (“of or pertaining to the middle”, adjective), from medius (“middle”) (see medium), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“middle”). Doublet of mean and mizzen. Cognate with Old English midde, middel (“middle”). More at middle.

From Media + -n.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove.
  2. adjective Situated in the middle; lying in a plane dividing a bilateral animal into right and left halves; --said of unpaired organs and parts; as, median coverts. Median line. (a) (Anat.) Any line in the mesial plane; specif., either of the lines in which the mesial plane meets the surface of the body. (b) (Geom.) The line drawn from an angle of a triangle to the middle of the opposite side; any line having the nature of a diameter.
  3. noun A median line or point.

Etymology [L. medianus, fr. medius middle. See Medial.]

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