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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motile

/ˈməʊtaɪl/ adjective, noun

Forms motiles

  1. adjective (biology) In organisms: having the power to move spontaneously.
  2. adjective (biology) In organs or organelles: capable of producing motion.
  3. adjective (physiology) In organs: having the power to move their contents, or to change their shape or tension by writhing or contracting as required by their particular physiological functions.
  4. adjective (psychology) Of or relating to those mental images that arise from the sensations of bodily movement and position.
  5. noun (psychology) A person whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action, such as incipient pronunciation of words, muscular innervations, etc.

Synonyms

vagile ambulatory animate kinetic mobile motive movable

Antonyms

sessile

Etymology

From Latin mōtus, perfect passive participle of moveō (“to move”, whence English move), + -ile.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having powers of self-motion, though unconscious; as, the motile spores of certain seaweeds.
  2. adjective Producing motion; as, motile powers.

Etymology [See Motive.]

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