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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

short circuit

noun, verb

Forms short circuits short circuiting short circuited short-circuit

  1. noun (electrical engineering) A usually unintentional connection of low resistance or impedance in a circuit such that excessive and often damaging current flows in it.
  2. noun (by extension, figurative) A logical disconnect, such as cognitive dissonance or poor analysis.
  3. verb (transitive) To cause a short circuit in.
  4. verb (intransitive) To undergo a short circuit.
  5. verb (transitive, by extension) To force termination of an ongoing process before its natural conclusion, by bypassing one or more intermediary steps.
  6. verb (transitive, by extension) To impede or disrupt.
  7. verb (transitive) To bypass, especially by overhastiness.
  8. verb (transitive, computing) To terminate a loop before the declared termination condition is met, or a conditional before all conditions have been tested for.

Synonyms

short short out

Etymology

short + circuit

Webster’s 1913

  1. A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.

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