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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round up

verb

Forms rounds up rounding up rounded up

  1. verb (transitive, idiomatic) To collect or gather (something) together. “The city hall needs to round up all the wrongly parked bikes across the city.”
  2. verb To gather (livestock such as cattle, sheep, geese, etc.) together, such as by encircling them. “In the autumn we round up all the hill sheep and bring them down into the barn.”
  3. verb (transitive, informal) To arrest or detain a group of people based on collective (rather than individualized) cause or suspicion, often as a form of targeted persecution. “During the Holocaust, the Nazis rounded up Jews into ghettos and concentration camps.”
  4. verb (transitive, arithmetic) To round (a number) to the smallest integer that is not less than it, or to some other greater value, especially a whole number of hundreds, thousands, etc. “The total is $24,995 — let's round it up to $25,000.”

Synonyms

aggregate bracket aggroup bring together collect corral confer congregate gather gather up group herd mass team team up togetherize

Antonyms

round down break up disband disperse dissolve give someone the heave-ho

Sources: Wiktionary — from the Wiktionary entry “round up”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details