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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plus

/ˈplʌs/ preposition, conjunction, noun, adjective, verb, proper noun

Forms pluses plusses pluss plusing plussing plused plussed

  1. preposition And; sum of the previous one and the following one. “Two plus two equals four.”
  2. preposition (colloquial) With; having in addition. “I've won a holiday to France plus five hundred euros in spending money!”
  3. conjunction And also; in addition; besides (which). “Let's go home now. It's late, plus I'm not feeling too well.”
  4. noun A positive quantity. “The figures show a plus.”
  5. noun An asset or useful addition. “He is a real plus to the team.”
  6. noun (arithmetic) A plus sign: +.
  7. adjective Being positive rather than negative or zero.
  8. adjective Positive, or involving advantage. “He is a plus factor.”
  9. adjective (physics) Electrically positive. “A battery has both a plus pole and a minus pole.”
  10. adjective (postpositive, somewhat informal) (Of a quantity) Equal to or greater than; or more; upwards. “The bus can fit 60 plus kids, but we only get 48.”
  11. adjective (postpostitive, informal) And more.
  12. verb (informal) To add; to subject to addition.
  13. verb (often followed by ‘up’) To increase in magnitude.
  14. verb To improve.
  15. verb To provide critical feedback by giving suggestions for improvement rather than criticisms.
  16. verb (sales) To sell additional related items with an original purchase.
  17. verb (psychology) To frame in a positive light; to provide a sympathetic interpretation.
  18. verb (social media, dated) To give a mark of approval on Google+.
  19. verb (homeopathy) To increase the potency of a remedy by diluting it in water and stirring.
  20. proper noun (colloquial) Synonym of North-South Expressway, a network of tolled highways controlled by PLUS Expressways

Synonyms

and asset plus sign advantageous good positive being positive rather than negative zero North-South Expressway PLUS Highway PLUS Expressway summation addition

Antonyms

minus liability minus sign negative bad disadvantageous

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay Projek Lebuhraya Utara Selatan Berhad (“North-South Highway Project Company”), PLUS Expressway's original name in Malay.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective More, required to be added; positive, as distinguished from negative; --opposed to Ant: minus.
  2. adjective Hence, in a literary sense, additional; real; actual.

Etymology [L., more; akin to Gr. full. See Full, a., and cf. Più, Pleonasm.]

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

Sanskrit

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