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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riser

/ˈɹaɪ.zə(ɹ)/ noun, proper noun

Forms risers

  1. noun Someone or something which rises.
  2. noun A platform or stand used to lift or elevate something. “The choir stood on risers for the performance.”
  3. noun (carpentry) A vertical part of a step on a staircase.
  4. noun (archery) The main body of a bow.
  5. noun A vertical utility conduit, pipe or path between floors of a building for placement of cables (e.g. telephone, networking), or to convey fluids (e.g. gas, water).
  6. noun A pipe connecting an individual exhaust port of an internal combustion engine to the muffler, particularly on aircraft.
  7. noun A Manx cat with a showable short tail.
  8. noun A strip of webbing joining a parachute's harness to the rigging lines.
  9. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

riser pipe riser pipeline riser main

Etymology

From Middle English ryser, risere, equivalent to rise + -er.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who rises; as, an early riser.
  2. noun (a) The upright piece of a step, from tread to tread. Hence: (b) Any small upright face, as of a seat, platform, veranda, or the like.

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