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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quad

UK /kwɒd/ · US /kwɑd/ noun, adjective, verb, proper noun

Forms quads quadding quadded the Quad

  1. noun (letterpress typography) A blank metal block used to fill short lines of type.
  2. noun (printing slang) A joke used to fill long days of setting type.
  3. noun (typography, phototypesetting and digital typesetting) A keyboard command which aligns text with the left or right margin, or centred between them. In combination, as quad left, quad right, or quad centre.
  4. noun (informal) A quadrangle (quadrangular courtyard).
  5. noun (colloquial, dated) A horse, from colloquial or humorous quadruped specifically for horse.
  6. noun A poster advertising a cinematic film release, measuring forty by thirty inches, four times the area of crown paper.
  7. noun (skating) A quadruple, a jump with four revolutions in the air.
  8. noun A serving of four shots of espresso; (attributive) containing four shots of espresso.
  9. adjective Quadruple, four times the usual size or quantity.
  10. adjective (paper) Quadrille, marked with squares.
  11. verb (typography, letterpress typography, transitive, intransitive) To fill spaces in a line of type with quads. Also quad out.
  12. verb (typography, phototypesetting and digital typesetting, transitive, intransitive) To align text with the left or right margin, or centre it.
  13. verb (transitive) To twist four individually insulated conductors together as two pairs of twisted wires that are then twisted together.
  14. verb (intransitive) To ride a quad bike.
  15. proper noun (informal) An informal strategic forum between the United States, Japan, Australia, and India, focused on Asian security matters.
  16. proper noun (by extension) A grouping of the United States, Japan, Australia, and India.
  17. proper noun (UK politics, historical) A coalition committee that resolved party disputes during the Cameron–Clegg coalition.

Synonyms

em quad em space quadrat quad bike four-wheeler QSD quadruplet quadriceps quadriceps femoris musculus quadriceps femoris space quadrangle

Etymology

Shortened, via clipping or abbreviation, from various English terms. Ultimately related to Latin quattuor (“4”); compare quadri-, quadruple.
The typography senses are from the abbreviation quad. for obsolete quadrat; the keyboard command comes from the verb sense.

Short for Quadrilateral Security Dialogue.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Evil; bad; baffling; as, a quade wind. [Obs.]
  2. noun A quadrat.
  3. noun A quadrangle; hence, a prison. [Cant or Slang]

Etymology [Akin to AS. cwæd, cwead, dung, evil, G. kot, dung, OHG. quat.]

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