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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overhand

adjective, noun, adverb, verb

Forms overhands overhanding overhanded over-hand over-handed

  1. adjective Executed with the hand brought forward and down from above the shoulders. “an overhand shuffle of a deck of cards”
  2. adjective (sewing) Sewn with close, vertical stitches that draw the edges of a seam together.
  3. adjective (of a loop in rope) With the working part on top of the standing part.
  4. adjective (masonry) Laid such that the surface of the wall to be jointed is on the opposite side of the wall from the mason, requiring the mason to lean over the wall to complete the work.
  5. adjective (mining) Done from below upward.
  6. noun The upper hand; advantage; superiority; mastery.
  7. adverb In an overhand manner
  8. verb Sew using an overhand stitch.

Synonyms

overarm overhanded oversewn

Antonyms

underhand

Etymology

From over- + hand.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The upper hand; advantage; superiority; mastery.
  2. adjective Over and over; --applied to a style of sewing, or to a seam, in which two edges, usually selvedges, are sewed together by passing each stitch over both.
  3. adjective Done (as pitching or bowling) with the hand higher than the elbow, or the arm above, or higher than, the shoulder. Overhand knot.
  4. adverb In an overhand manner or style.

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