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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outfield

/ˈaʊtfild/ noun, verb

Forms outfields outfielding outfielded

  1. noun (baseball, softball) The region of the field between the infield and the outer fence. “He hit a long fly ball to the outfield in the gap to left.”
  2. noun (cricket) The region of the field roughly outside of the infield or the wicket-keeper, slips, gully, point, cover, mid off, mid on, midwicket and square leg.
  3. noun The area outside a racetrack or running track.
  4. noun (Scotland, agriculture) Arable land continually cropped without being manured.
  5. noun (Scotland, agriculture) Any open field at a distance from the farmsteading.
  6. verb (baseball, cricket) To perform better in defense (fielding).

Synonyms

backfield

Antonyms

infield

Etymology

From out- + field.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Arable land which has been or is being exhausted. See Infield, 1.
  2. noun A field beyond, or separated from, the inclosed land about the homestead; an uninclosed or unexplored tract. Also used figuratively.

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