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 up

verb

Also a form of put-up

Forms puts up putting up

  1. verb (transitive) To place in a high location. “Please put up your luggage in the overhead bins.”
  2. verb (transitive) To hang; to mount. “Many people put up messages on their refrigerators.”
  3. verb (transitive) To style (the hair) up on the head, instead of letting it hang down.
  4. verb (transitive, idiomatic, used with "to") To cajole or dare (someone) to do (something). “I think someone put him up to it.”
  5. verb (transitive, idiomatic) To store away. “Be sure to put up the tools when you finish.”
  6. verb (transitive, idiomatic) To house; to shelter; to take in. “We can put you up for the night.”
  7. verb (intransitive, archaic) To stay, to sojourn (at a hotel, inn, tavern, etc.)
  8. verb (transitive, idiomatic) To present, especially in "put up a fight". “That last fighter put up quite a fight.”

Synonyms

put away frame up post provide offer raise erect rear set up digest endure stick out stomach bear stand tolerate support brook abide suffer can tin house domiciliate contribute nominate put forward

Antonyms

let down put down

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