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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perpendicular

UK /ˌpɜː.pənˈdɪk.jə.lə(ɹ)/ · US /ˌpɝ.pənˈdɪk.ju.lɚ/ adjective, noun

Forms perpendiculars

  1. adjective (geometry) At or forming a right angle (to something). “In most houses, the walls are perpendicular to the floor.”
  2. adjective Exactly upright; extending in a straight line toward the centre of the earth, etc.
  3. adjective Independent of or irrelevant to each other; orthogonal.
  4. noun (geometry) A line or plane that is perpendicular to another.
  5. noun A device such as a plumb line that is used in making or marking a perpendicular line.
  6. noun (obsolete, slang) A meal eaten at a tavern bar while standing up.
  7. adjective (architecture) Of a style of English Gothic architecture from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, marked by stiff and rectilinear lines, mostly vertical window-tracery, depressed or four-centre arch, fan-tracery vaulting, and panelled walls.

Synonyms

normal orthogonal perpendicular style English-Gothic English-Gothic architecture plumb line vertical

Antonyms

oblique parallel

Etymology

Derived from Middle French perpendiculaire, from Old French perpendiculer, from Latin perpendiculum (“plumb line”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Exactly upright or vertical; pointing to the zenith; at right angles to the plane of the horizon; extending in a right line from any point toward the center of the earth.
  2. adjective At right angles to a given line or surface; as, the line ad is perpendicular to the line bc. Perpendicular style (Arch.), a name given to the latest variety of English Gothic architecture, which prevailed from the close of the 14th century to the early part of the 16th; --probably so called from the vertical style of its window mullions.
  3. noun A line at right angles to the plane of the horizon; a vertical line or direction.
  4. noun A line or plane falling at right angles on another line or surface, or making equal angles with it on each side.

Etymology [L. perpendicularis, perpendicularius: cf. F. perpendiculaire. See Perpendicle, Pension.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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