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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put on

/ˌpʊt ˈɒn/ verb

Forms puts on putting on

  1. verb (transitive) To don (clothing, equipment, or the like). “Why don't you put on your jacket. It's cold.”
  2. verb (ditransitive) To decorate or dress (something) onto another person or a surface. “I put a coat on my daughter.”
  3. verb (intransitive, transitive) To fool, kid, deceive. “You must be putting me on.”
  4. verb (transitive) To assume, adopt or affect; to behave in a particular way as a pretense. “Why are you putting that silly voice on?”
  5. verb (transitive) To play (a recording). “I'll put your favorite record on.”
  6. verb (ditransitive) To play (a recording) on (a sound system). “I'll put blues on the stereo.”
  7. verb (transitive) To initiate cooking or warming, especially on a stovetop. “I'll put on some coffee for everybody.”
  8. verb (transitive) To perform for an audience. “The actors put on a show last Saturday.”

Synonyms

beclothe hoodwink hasten put down wear get into don assume turn in mount apply gull dupe slang befool cod fool take in put one over put one across gain assumed false fictitious fictive pretended sham

Antonyms

take off doff

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