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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quarter

UK /ˈk(w)ɔːtə/ · US /ˈk(w)ɔɹ.tɚ/ noun, adjective, verb, proper noun

Forms quarters quartering quartered

  1. noun (in general sense) Each of four equal parts into which something can be divided; a fourth part. “I ate a quarter of the pizza.”
  2. noun (now chiefly historical) A measure of capacity used chiefly for grain or coal, varying greatly in quantity by time and location.
  3. noun A fourth part of a pound; approximately 113 grams.
  4. noun (historical) A measure of length; originally a fourth part of an ell, now chiefly a fourth part of a yard.
  5. noun (now historical) A fourth part of the night; one of the watches or divisions of the night.
  6. noun (now chiefly finance) A fourth part of the year; 3 months; a term or season.
  7. noun (time) A fourth part of an hour; a period of fifteen minutes, especially with reference to the quarter before or after the hour.
  8. noun (now chiefly historical) A fourth part of a hundredweight.
  9. adjective Pertaining to an aspect of a quarter.
  10. adjective (chiefly) Consisting of a fourth part, a quarter (¹⁄₄, 25%). “a quarter hour; a quarter century; a quarter note; a quarter pound”
  11. adjective (chiefly) Related to a three-month term, a quarter of a year. “A quarter day is one terminating a quarter of the year.”
  12. verb (transitive) To divide into quarters; to divide by four.
  13. verb (transitive) To provide housing for (usually military personnel or equipment). “Quarter the horses in the third stable.”
  14. verb (intransitive) To lodge; to have a temporary residence.
  15. verb (transitive) To quartersaw.
  16. verb (transitive, historical) To execute (someone) by tying each limb to a different animal (such as a horse) and driving them in different directions.
  17. verb (heraldry) To display different coats of arms in the quarters of a shield.
  18. verb (transitive) To range to and fro over an area; to move from point to point.
  19. verb (obsolete) To drive a carriage so as to prevent the wheels from going into the ruts, or so that a rut shall be between the wheels.
  20. proper noun A village in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7251).

Synonyms

fourth fourth part one-fourth one-quarter ¼ two bits district ward neighborhood ghetto borough capitoulate trimester cour stay over stop twenty-five percent quartern stern after part poop tail billet canton draw draw and quarter

Antonyms

quadruple

Etymology

From Middle English quarter, from Anglo-Norman quarter, from Latin quartarius, from quartus. Compare Spanish cuarto (“room, quarters; quarter”). Doublet of quartier.

Borrowed from French cartayer.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One of four equal parts into which anything is divided, or is regarded as divided; a fourth part or portion; as, a quarter of a dollar, of a pound, of a yard, of an hour, etc. Hence, specifically: (a) The fourth of a hundred-weight, being 25 or 28 pounds, according as the hundredweight is reckoned at 100 or 112 pounds.
  2. noun The encampment on one of the principal passages round a place besieged, to prevent relief and intercept convoys.
  3. verb To divide into four equal parts.
  4. verb To divide; to separate into parts or regions.

Etymology [F. quartier, L. quartarius a fourth part, fr. quartus the fourth. See Quart.]

Etymology [F. cartayer.]

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

Sanskrit

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