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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platform

UK /ˈplætfɔːm/ · US /ˈplætfɔɹm/ noun, verb

Forms platforms platforming platformed

  1. noun A raised stage from which speeches are made and on which musical and other performances are made.
  2. noun A raised floor for any purpose, e.g. for workmen during construction, or formerly for military cannon.
  3. noun (figurative) A place or an opportunity to express one's opinion. “This new talk show will give a platform to everyday men and women.”
  4. noun (figurative) Something that allows an enterprise to advance.
  5. noun (politics, figurative) A political stance on a broad set of issues, which are called planks.
  6. noun (transport) A raised structure or other area alongside rails or a driveway alongside which vehicles stop to take in and discharge passengers.
  7. noun (transport) A specific stopping place on one of multiple tracks at a station, numbered or otherwise named.
  8. noun (Internet) A software system used to provide online services to clients, such as social media, e-commerce, or cloud computing.
  9. verb (transitive) To furnish with or shape into a platform
  10. verb (transitive) To place on, or as if on, a platform.
  11. verb (rail transport) To place a train alongside a station platform.
  12. verb (politics, transitive) To include in a political platform
  13. verb (transitive) To publish or make visible; to provide a platform for (a topic etc.).
  14. verb (film, transitive) To open (a film) in a small number of theaters before a broader release in order to generate enthusiasm.
  15. verb (obsolete, transitive) To form a plan of; to model; to lay out.

Synonyms

dais podium tribune foundation stage track political platform political program program weapons platform chopine

Antonyms

deplatform no-platform

Etymology

From Middle French plateforme (“a flat form”), from plate (“flat”) (from Old French plat, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “flat”)) + forme (“form”) (from Latin fōrma (“shape; figure; form”)); compare flatscape.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A plat; a plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern. Used also figuratively. [Obs.] Bacon.
  2. noun A place laid out after a model. [Obs.]
  3. verb To place on a platform. [R.]
  4. verb To form a plan of; to model; to lay out. [Obs.]

Etymology [Plat, a. + -form: cf. F. plateforme.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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