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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norm

UK /nɔːm/ · US /noɹm/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms norms norming normed

  1. noun That which is normal or typical. “Unemployment is the norm in this part of the country.”
  2. noun A rule that is imposed by regulations and/or socially enforced by members of a community. “Not eating your children is just one of those societal norms.”
  3. noun A required level of achievement.
  4. noun (philosophy, computer science) A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a command, permission, or prohibition.
  5. noun if v ne 0 then ‖v‖ ne 0;
  6. noun given a scalar k, ‖kv‖=|k|·‖v‖, where |k| is the absolute value of k;
  7. noun given two vectors v,w, ‖v+w‖<‖v‖+‖w‖ (the triangle inequality).
  8. noun (mathematics) Any of several generalizations of the above: a field norm, ideal norm, etc.
  9. verb (mathematical analysis) To endow (a vector space, etc.) with a norm.
  10. proper noun A diminutive of the male given name Norman.

Synonyms

average

Etymology

From Latin norma (“a carpenter's square, a rule, a pattern, a precept”). Doublet of norma.

Back-formation from normed.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A rule or authoritative standard; a model; a type.
  2. noun A typical, structural unit; a type. Agassiz.

Etymology [L. norma a rule. See Normal, a.]

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