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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output

/ˈaʊtpʊt/ noun, verb

Forms outputs outputting outputted

  1. noun (economics) Production; quantity produced, created, or completed. “The factory increased its output this year.”
  2. noun (computing) Data sent out of the computer, as to output device such as a monitor or printer, or data sent from one program on the computer to another. “a six-page output; six pages of output”
  3. noun (medicine) The flow rate of body liquids such as blood and urine.
  4. noun (electrical engineering) The amount of power produced by a particular system.
  5. noun (computing, electrical engineering) The terminal through which the data or power is delivered from the source, output terminal.
  6. verb (economics) To produce, create, or complete. “We output 1400 units last year.”
  7. verb (computing) To send data out of a computer, as to an output device such as a monitor or printer, or to send data from one program on the computer to another. “When I hit enter, it outputs a bunch of numbers.”

Synonyms

end product yield output signal production outturn turnout

Etymology

From out + (verb) put; nominalisation of put out.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The amount of coal or ore put out from one or more mines, or the quantity of material produced by, or turned out from, one or more furnaces or mills, in a given time.
  2. noun That which is thrown out as products of the metabolic activity of the body; the egesta other than the fæces. See Income.

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