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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sideways

/ˈsaɪdweɪz/ adjective, adverb

Also a form of sideway

  1. adjective Moving or directed toward one side. “Giving Mary a sideways glance, he said,[…].”
  2. adjective (informal) Positioned sideways (with a side to the front). “There was a stack of papers in front of each seat at the table, but each stack was sideways.”
  3. adjective (informal) Neither moving upward nor moving downward. “Once we get out of this sideways economy, our figures will more accurately reflect what we're truly capable of.”
  4. adjective (usually with "with", informal) In conflict (with); not compatible (with). “He was constantly getting sideways with his boss till he got fired.”
  5. adverb With a side to the front. “He builds houses sideways, with the front door on the side.”
  6. adverb Towards one side. “A bishop moves only diagonally; a rook, only sideways, forward, and back.”
  7. adverb Askance; sidelong.
  8. adverb (informal) Neither upward nor downward. “The economy has been moving sideways for several months now.”
  9. adverb (chiefly US, colloquial) Not as planned; towards a worse outcome. “We realized the project could go sideways very quickly if we didn't get the sales and marketing people on our side.”

Synonyms

south askance askant askile broadside laterally sideling sidelong sidely sideward sidewise sideyways crabwise sideway obliquely

Antonyms

backwards directly forwards towards

Etymology

From side + -ways.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb Toward the side; sidewise.

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “sideways” (best matches first).