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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

ramp

/ɹæmp/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms ramps ramping ramped

  1. noun An inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline.
  2. noun (Canada, US) An interchange, a road that connects a freeway to a surface street or another freeway.
  3. noun A structure with an inclined surface made for stunts, as for jumping motorcycles or other vehicles.
  4. noun (aviation) A mobile staircase that is attached to the doors of an aircraft at an airport.
  5. noun (cricket) A way of hitting a boundary by facing the bat face front and pushing with force to launch the ball. 100% of it done against pace. “He hit three ramps in a row to push his team near the opponents total.”
  6. noun (aviation) A large parking area in an airport for aircraft, for loading and unloading or for storage (see also apron and tarmac).
  7. noun (aviation) A surface inside the air intake of a supersonic aircraft which adjusts in position to allow for efficient shock wave compression of incoming air at a wide range of different Mach numbers.
  8. noun (skating) A construction used to do skating tricks, usually in the form of part of a pipe.
  9. verb To behave violently; to rage.
  10. verb (slang, transitive) To swindle or rob violently.
  11. verb (Australia, slang, transitive) To search a prisoner or a prisoner's cell.
  12. verb (obsolete, intransitive) To spring; to leap; to bound, rear, or prance; to move swiftly or violently.
  13. verb (obsolete, intransitive) To climb, like a plant; to creep up.
  14. verb (obsolete, intransitive) To stand in a rampant position.
  15. verb (ambitransitive) To (cause to) change value, often at a steady rate.
  16. verb To adapt a piece of iron to the woodwork of a gate.
  17. noun Any of species Allium tricoccum of plants related to the onion; a wild leek.
  18. noun (Appalachia or obsolete) A promiscuous man or woman.
  19. noun (Appalachia, derogatory) A worthless person.
  20. proper noun A surname from German.

Synonyms

slip road ramps rams ramson ramsons wild leek incline Allium tricoccum rage storm

Etymology

From French rampe, from Middle French rampe, deverbal of ramper, from Old French ramper (“to crawl, climb, scale up”), from Frankish *hrampōn (“to contract oneself, wrinkle, rumple, crumple, curve”), from Proto-Germanic *hrimpaną (“to shrivel, shrink”). Cognate with German Rampf (“retraction, curvature, shrinkage, spasm”). Doublet of romp.
Akin also to Old English ġehrimpan (“to wrinkle, rimple, rumple”), Old High German rimpfan (German rümpfen (“to wrinkle up”)). Compare Danish rimpe (“to fold" (archaic), "to baste”), Icelandic rimpa. More at rimple.

]See ramson.

Borrowed from German Ramp.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To spring; to leap; to bound; to rear; to prance; to become rampant; hence, to frolic; to romp.
  2. verb To move by leaps, or by leaps; hence, to move swiftly or with violence.
  3. noun A leap; a spring; a hostile advance.
  4. noun A highwayman; a robber. [Prov. Eng.]

Etymology [F. ramper to creep, OF., to climb; of German origin; cf. G. raffen to snatch, LG. & D. rapen. See Rap to snatch, and cf. Romp.]

Etymology [F. rampe.]

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