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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overpass

/ˈəʊvə(ɹ)pæs/ noun, verb

Forms overpasses overpassing overpassed o'erpass

  1. noun A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc. “The homeless man had built a little shelter, complete with cook-stove, beneath a concrete overpass.”
  2. verb To pass above something, as when flying or moving on a higher road. “Gillian watched the overpassing shoppers on the second floor of the mall, as she relaxed in the bench on the ground floor.”
  3. verb (transitive) To exceed, overstep, or transcend a limit, threshold, or goal. “Marshall was really overpassing his authority when he ordered the security guards to fire their tasers at the trespassers.”
  4. verb (transitive) To disregard, skip, or miss something.

Synonyms

flyover pass over transpass overgo misregard surpass transgress miss overlook take no notice of fail to notice

Antonyms

underpass subway

Etymology

Cf. Surpass.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To go over or beyond; to cross; as, to overpass a river; to overpass limits.
  2. verb To pass over; to omit; to overlook; to disregard.
  3. verb To pass over, away, or off.

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