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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ration

/ˈɹeɪʃən/ noun, verb

Forms rations rationing rationed

  1. noun A portion of some limited resource, especially food, allocated to a person, group or period. “Jack gathered his meager ration of food.”
  2. verb (transitive) To supply with a ration; to limit (someone) to a specific allowance of something. “We rationed ourselves to three sips of water a day until we were rescued.”
  3. verb (transitive) To portion out (especially during a shortage of supply); to limit access to. “By the third day on the raft, we had to ration our water.”
  4. verb (transitive) To restrict (an activity etc.) “I've rationed myself to one cup of coffee a day.”

Synonyms

Hooverize ration out

Etymology

From French ration. Doublet of reason and ratio.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A fixed daily allowance of provisions assigned to a soldier in the army, or a sailor in the navy, for his subsistence.
  2. noun Hence, a certain portion or fixed amount dealt out; an allowance; an allotment.
  3. verb To supply with rations, as a regiment.

Etymology [F., fr. L. ratio a reckoning, calculation, relation, reference, LL. ratio ration. See Ratio.]

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