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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quart

UK /kwɔːt/ · US /kwɔɹt/ noun, adjective, adverb, verb, proper noun

Forms quarts quarting quarted

  1. noun A unit of liquid capacity equal to two pints; one-fourth (quarter) of a gallon. Equivalent to 1.136 liters in the UK and 0.946 liter (liquid quart) or 1.101 liters (dry quart) in the U.S.
  2. noun (card games) Four successive cards of the same suit.
  3. noun (obsolete) A fourth; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth.
  4. noun (fencing) The fourth defensive position; quarte.
  5. adjective (dialectal, obsolete) Safe, sound; healthy.
  6. noun (obsolete) Safety, soundness; health.
  7. adjective (dialectal) Transverse.
  8. adjective (dialectal) Contentious or quarrelsome.
  9. adverb (dialectal) Crosswise; across.
  10. verb (dialectal) To thwart.
  11. proper noun A comune of the Aosta Valley autonomous region, Italy.
  12. proper noun A municipality of Gironès, Comarques Gironines, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
  13. proper noun A surname:
  14. proper noun Josie Alice Quart (1895–1980), Canadian senator

Synonyms

dry quart

Etymology

From Middle English quart, quarte, from Old French quarte, carte, from Latin quartus (“one-fourth”). Cognate with Spanish cuarto (“quarter; room, quarters”).

From Middle English quarte, querte, from Old Norse kyrt, *kvirt, neuter of Old Norse kyrr, kvirr (“quiet, still, peaceful”), from Proto-Germanic *kwerruz (“calm, satisfied, pacified”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₂- (“heavy”). Cognate with Scots quert, quart (“alive, in good health, sound”), Scots querty (“vivacious, active, in good spirits”), Danish kvær (“quiet”), Norwegian Nynorsk kvar, kvær, kverr (“still, quiet”), Icelandic kyrr (“still, calm, unmoving”).

Dialectal alteration of thwart.

From quārtum (“fourth”), that is town on the fourth Roman mile from the city of Girona, v.DCVB

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The fourth part; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth.
  2. noun A measure of capacity, both in dry and in liquid measure; the fourth part of a gallon; the eighth part of a peck; two pints.
  3. noun A vessel or measure containing a quart.
  4. noun In cards, four successive cards of the same suit. Cf. Tierce, 4. Hoyle.

Etymology [F. quart, n. masc., fr. L. quartus the fourth, akin to quattuor four. See Four, and cf. 2d Carte, Quarto.]

Etymology [F. quarte, n. fem., fr. quart fourth. See Quart a quarter.]

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