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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normalize

UK /ˈnɔː.mə.laɪz/ · US /ˈnɔɹ.mə.laɪz/ verb

Forms normalizes normalizing normalized normalise

  1. verb (transitive) To make normal, to bring into alignment with an established standard. “There is little hope that the two countries will normalize relations; their governments seem to hate each other and would just as soon stay on bad terms.”
  2. verb (transitive) To consider normal, to treat as standard in the face of older norms.
  3. verb (transitive) To format in a standardized manner, to make consistent. “We'll need to normalize these statements before we can compare them.”
  4. verb (intransitive) To become normal; to return to a normal state.
  5. verb (statistics, transitive) To reduce the variations by excluding irrelevant aspects. “After we properly normalize the measurements with respect to age, gender, geography and economic considerations, there remains little evidence of a difference between the two groups.”
  6. verb (rail transport, transitive) To return a set of points (switches) to the normal position.
  7. verb (rail transport, intransitive, of points) To return to the normal position from the reverse position.
  8. verb (computing, databases, transitive) To subject to normalization; to eliminate redundancy in (a model for storing data).

Synonyms

normalise renormalize renormalise anneal temper

Antonyms

reverse

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