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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rally

/ˈɹæli/ noun, verb

Forms rallies rallying rallied

  1. noun A public gathering or mass meeting that is not mainly a protest and is organized to inspire enthusiasm for a cause. “a campaign rally”
  2. noun A protest or demonstration for or against something, but often with speeches and often without marching, especially in North America. “a political rally”
  3. noun (squash, table tennis, tennis, badminton) A sequence of strokes between serving and scoring a point.
  4. noun (motor racing) An event in which competitors drive through a series of timed special stages at intervals. The winner is the driver who completes all stages with the shortest cumulative time.
  5. noun (business, trading) A recovery after a decline in prices (said of the market, stocks, etc.)
  6. verb (transitive) To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
  7. verb (intransitive) To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble.
  8. verb (ambitransitive) To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness.
  9. verb (business, trading, of the market, stocks etc., intransitive) To recover strength after a decline in prices. “The market fell this morning but rallied later in the day.”
  10. verb (transitive) To tease; to chaff good-humouredly.
  11. noun Good-humoured raillery.

Synonyms

recovery moment muster unite recuperate bounce back rebound mass meeting rallying exchange beat up drum up call up mobilize mobilise summon come up muster up tease razz rag cod tantalize tantalise bait taunt twit ride

Antonyms

decline

Etymology

From Middle French rallier (French rallier), from Old French ralier, from Latin prefix re- + ad + ligare (“to bind; to ally”).

From French railler. See rail (“to scoff”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
  2. verb To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite.
  3. verb To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.
  4. noun The act or process of rallying (in any of the senses of that word).

Etymology [OF. ralier, F. rallier, fr. L. pref. re- + ad + ligare to bind. See Ra-, and 1st Ally.]

Etymology [F. railler. See Rail to scoff.]

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