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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revert

/ɹəˈvɜː(ɹ)t/ noun, verb

Forms reverts reverting reverted

  1. noun One who, or that which, reverts.
  2. noun (religion) One who reverts to that religion which one had adhered to before having converted to another.
  3. noun (Islam, ideologically loaded, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.
  4. noun (computing) The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state. “We've found that git reverts are at least an order of magnitude faster than SVN reverse merges.”
  5. noun The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.
  6. verb (transitive, now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
  7. verb To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
  8. verb (transitive) To cause to return to a former condition.
  9. verb (transitive) To reverse (a change).
  10. verb (transitive) To reverse a change made by (a person).
  11. verb (intransitive) To return to the possession of. “When a book goes out of print, rights revert from the publisher to the author.”
  12. verb (intransitive, law) Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
  13. verb (transitive) To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner. “Sometimes a publisher will automatically revert rights back to an author once a book has gone out of print.”

Synonyms

restore roll back undo give back reinstate render return revest surrender hark back revert back deconvert reconvert rehabilitate restitute retrovert regress turn back

Antonyms

convert

Etymology

From Old French revertir, from Vulgar Latin *revertiō, variant of Latin revertō.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.
  2. verb To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
  3. verb To return; to come back.
  4. verb To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.

Etymology [L. revertere, reversum; pref. re- re- + vertere to turn: cf. OF. revertir. See Verse, and cf. Reverse.]

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