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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overshoot

UK /ˈəʊ.və.ʃuːt/ · US /ˈoʊ.vɚˌʃut/ noun, verb

Forms overshoots overshooting overshot

  1. noun (countable) The amount by which something goes too far. “Let's see if we can predict and correct for the overshoot.”
  2. noun (countable, uncountable, ecology) The situation where the population of a species exceeds its environment's carrying capacity.
  3. noun (countable, uncountable, typography, design) The portion of a letter extending above the capline of other letters of the same font, or the relative degree of such extent.
  4. verb To go past something; to go too far. “When you drive, you must remember to not overshoot the parking space and end up with two wheels over the line.”
  5. verb To shoot beyond; to shoot too far to hit something.
  6. verb To pass swiftly over; to fly beyond.
  7. verb (figurative) To exceed. “to overshoot the truth”
  8. verb (reflexive) To venture too far; to overreach (oneself).
  9. verb To record too much photographic footage.

Synonyms

overrun wave-off go-around

Antonyms

undershoot

Etymology

From Middle English overshoten, oversheten (“to shoot beyond, shoot past, pour down from above”), perhaps continuing Old English ofersċēotan (“to shoot down”), equivalent to over- + shoot.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To shoot over or beyond. "Not to overshoot his game." South.
  2. verb To pass swiftly over; to fly beyond. Hartle.
  3. verb To fly beyond the mark. Collier.

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