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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punch out

verb

Forms punches out punching out punched out punch outs

  1. verb (transitive) To repeatedly hit a person.
  2. verb (transitive) To hit a person so that they become unconscious (knocked out). “I'm going to punch out that SOB and leave him lying on the ground bleeding.”
  3. verb (transitive) To use a punch to remove a piece of material or to remove a piece already scored. “I spent all day punching out the die cut decals.”
  4. verb (intransitive, US) To leave a workplace by punching a timecard. “I'm going to punch out a bit early today.”
  5. verb (intransitive) To leave a workplace.
  6. verb (intransitive, aviation) To eject from an airplane. “With the engine on fire he had to punch out and hit the silk.”
  7. verb (transitive, intransitive, computing) To extract data from a computer by the use of a keyboard.
  8. verb (transitive, baseball) To rule (by an umpire) that a pitch is a called third strike, often done emphatically. “The ump punched out the batter with relish to close out the game.”

Synonyms

clock out clock off

Antonyms

clock in clock on punch in

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “punch out”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details