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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quadrilateral

UK /ˌkwɒdɹɪˈlætəɹəl/ · US /ˌkwɑdɹəˈlætəɹəl/ noun, adjective

Forms quadrilaterals

  1. noun (geometry) A polygon with four sides.
  2. noun An area defended by four fortresses supporting each other. “The Venetian quadrilateral comprised Mantua, Peschiera, Verona, and Legnano.”
  3. adjective Having four sides. “They spoke at a quadrilateral meeting of the trade ministers of the United States, the European Union, Canada, and Japan.”

Synonyms

4-gon tetragon quadrangle quadrilater tetract four-sided

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin quadrilaterus + -al.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having four sides, and consequently four angles; quadrangular.
  2. noun A plane figure having four sides, and consequently four angles; a quadrangular figure; any figure formed by four lines.
  3. noun An area defended by four fortresses supporting each other; as, the Venetian quadrilateral, comprising Mantua, Peschiera, Verona, and Legnano. Complete quadrilateral (Geom.), the figure made up of the six straight lines that can be drawn through four points, A., B, C, I, the lines being supposed to be produced indefinitely.

Etymology [L. quadrilaterus: cf. F. quadrilatère, quadrilatéral. See Quadri- and Lateral.]

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