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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back door

noun, adjective, verb

Forms back doors back dooring back doored backdoor back-door

  1. noun A subsidiary entrance to a building or house at its rear, normally away from the street.
  2. noun A means of access, often secret and unprotected, to something.
  3. noun (computer security) A secret means of access to a program or system.
  4. noun (automotive) A rear side door of a car, or at the back of a van.
  5. noun (slang) The anus (usually in sexual practices). “backdoor action”
  6. noun (slang, by extension, uncountable) Anal sex.
  7. noun (golf, informal) The rear side of the hole, furthest from the golfer.
  8. adjective (US, baseball) The path of a pitch which starts outside and then slides over the plate. “He has a nasty back door slider.”
  9. adjective Achieved through indirect means. “Lately there's been a lot of back door pressure on me to step down.”
  10. adjective (poker, of a draw) Requiring consecutive cards on the turn and river to be achieved.
  11. verb To attempt to accomplish by indirect means, especially when direct means are proscribed.
  12. verb (transitive, surfing) To enter a tube by accelerating from behind; to surf into an already formed hollow wave, in contrast to the normal method of slowing to allow a surfable wave to form.
  13. verb (transitive, computer security) To add a backdoor (a secret means of access) to a program or system.
  14. verb (transitive, slang) To betray (someone); to double-cross (someone); to set (someone) up; to take advantage of (someone's) trust.

Synonyms

backgate backdoor back entrance

Antonyms

foredoor front door

Webster’s 1913

  1. A door in the back part of a building; hence, an indirect way. Atterbury.

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