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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

ordinate

/ˈɔː(ɹ)dɪnət/ noun, verb, adjective

Forms ordinates ordinating ordinated

  1. noun (geometry) The second of the two terms by which a point is referred to, in a system of fixed rectilinear coordinate (Cartesian coordinate) axes. “The point (3,2) has 3 as its abscissa and 2 as its ordinate.”
  2. noun (geometry) The vertical line representing an axis of a Cartesian coordinate system, on which the ordinate (sense above) is shown.
  3. verb (transitive) To align a series of objects.
  4. verb (transitive, uncommon) To ordain a priest, or consecrate a bishop.
  5. verb (transitive, now rare) To order or regulate; to control, govern, or direct.
  6. verb (transitive, obsolete) To institute, establish; to ordain; to predestine.
  7. verb (transitive, statistics, ecology) To subject to the mathematical operation of ordination.
  8. adjective (rare after the 17th c., of someone) Observant of order, keeping within set limits; moderate, temperate
  9. adjective (obsolete, of things) Conforming to order or rule, ordered, regulated, regular, orderly. “ordinate power”
  10. adjective (entomology, rare) Arranged regularly in a row or rows.
  11. adjective (geometry, obsolete) Of a figure: having all its sides and angles equal.
  12. adjective (mathematics, obsolete, only in Euclid translations) Relating to an ordered series of ratios. “ordinate proportionality; ordinate proportion”

Synonyms

ordain tidy orderly regular consecrate order align coordinate

Etymology

Partly inherited from Middle English ordinat(e) (adjective and participle), partly directly borrowed from Latin ōrdinātus, perfect passive participle of ōrdinō, see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3). Doublet of ordain.
Sense 5 of the verb is from a back-formation from ordination.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Well-ordered; orderly; regular; methodical. "A life blissful and ordinate." Chaucer. Ordinate figure (Math.), a figure whose sides and angles are equal; a regular figure.
  2. noun The distance of any point in a curve or a straight line, measured on a line called the axis of ordinates or on a line parallel to it, from another line called the axis of abscissas, on which the corresponding abscissa of the point is measured.
  3. verb To appoint, to regulate; to harmonize. Bp. Hall.

Etymology [L. ordinatus, p. p. of ordinare. See Ordain.]

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