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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overlook

UK /ˈəʊvəˌlʊk/ · US /ˈoʊvəɹˌlʊk/ noun, verb

Forms overlooks overlooking overlooked

  1. noun A vista or point that gives a view down toward something else.
  2. verb To offer a view (of something) from a higher position. “Our hotel room overlooks the lake.”
  3. verb To fail to notice; to look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it. “These errors were overlooked by the proofreaders.”
  4. verb To pretend not to have noticed (something, especially a mistake or flaw); to pass over (something) without censure or punishment. “I’m not willing to overlook such bad behaviour.”
  5. verb To look down upon from above or from a higher location. “The hill overlooks the valley.”
  6. verb (archaic, sometimes non-native speakers' English) To supervise, oversee; to watch over. “to overlook a gang of laborers”
  7. verb (archaic) To observe or watch (someone or something) surreptitiously or secretly.
  8. verb (archaic) To inspect (something); to examine; to look over carefully or repeatedly.
  9. verb (archaic) To look upon with an evil eye; to bewitch by looking upon; to fascinate.

Synonyms

misheed ignore misregard miss overpass oversee take no notice of brush off discount disregard dissemble despise neglect pass pass by pay no heed put aside set at nought shrug off slough look out on look out over look across pretermit omit drop leave out overleap dominate command

Etymology

From Middle English overloken; equivalent to over- + look.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill. "The pile o'erlooked the town." Dryden.
  2. verb Hence: To supervise; to watch over; sometimes, to observe secretly; as, to overlook a gang of laborers; to overlook one who is writing a letter.

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “overlook” (best matches first).