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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pivot

/ˈpɪv.ɪt/ noun, verb

Forms pivots pivoting pivoted

  1. noun A thing on which something turns; specifically a metal pointed pin or short shaft in machinery, such as the end of an axle or spindle.
  2. noun (figuratively, by extension) Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation.
  3. noun Act of turning on one foot.
  4. noun (military) The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place while the company or line moves around him in wheeling.
  5. noun (roller derby) A player with responsibility for co-ordinating their team in a particular jam.
  6. noun (programming) An element of a set to be sorted that is chosen as a midpoint, so as to divide the other elements into two groups to be dealt with recursively.
  7. noun (computing) A pivot table.
  8. noun (graphical user interface) Any of a row of captioned elements used to navigate to subpages, rather like tabs.
  9. verb (intransitive) To turn on an exact spot.
  10. verb (business slang) To change the direction of a business, usually in response to changes in the market.
  11. verb (US, politics) To shift a political candidate's messaging during a general election to reflect plans and values more moderate than those advocated during the primary.

Synonyms

pivot man pin swivel

Etymology

From Middle English pevet, *pivot, from Old French pivot (“hinge pin, pivot”) (12th c.), possibly from Latin pūgiō.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A fixed pin or short axis, on the end of which a wheel or other body turns.
  2. noun The end of a shaft or arbor which rests and turns in a support; as, the pivot of an arbor in a watch.
  3. verb To place on a pivot. Clarke.

Etymology [F.; prob. akin to It. piva pipe, F. pipe. See Pipe.]

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

Sanskrit

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