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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obverse

/ˈɑb.vɚs/ adjective, noun

Forms obverses

  1. adjective Turned or facing toward the observer. “The obverse side of the gravestone has the inscription.”
  2. adjective Corresponding; complementary. “When you speak clearly, people understand you. If you don't mumble, the obverse effect is observed.”
  3. adjective (botany) Having the base, or end next to the attachment, narrower than the top. “an obverse leaf”
  4. noun The heads side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that has the principal design. “The medal had a cross on the obverse and had a name inscribed on the reverse.”
  5. noun (logic) A proposition obtained by obversion.

Synonyms

facing presenting analogous like parallel reciprocal

Antonyms

reverse

Etymology

From Latin obversus, 1650s.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having the base, or end next the attachment, narrower than the top, as a leaf.
  2. noun The face of a coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it; --the other side being the reverse.
  3. noun Anything necessarily involved in, or answering to, another; the more apparent or conspicuous of two possible sides, or of two corresponding things.

Etymology [L. obversus, p.p. of obvertere. See Obvert.]

Etymology [Cf.F. obverse, obvers. See Obverse, a.]

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