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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sort out

verb

Forms sorts out sorting out sorted out

  1. verb (transitive) To clarify by reviewing mentally. “It's a bit confused at the moment, I'll try to sort it out later.”
  2. verb (transitive) To arrange. “Could you call Dave and sort out a meeting for tomorrow?”
  3. verb (transitive) To fix (a problem). “The computer won't let me delete that file; could you sort it out?”
  4. verb (transitive) To organise or separate into groups, as a collection of items, so as to make tidy. “Could you sort out your wardrobe and put the clothes you no longer use in one pile to give away and another to throw away?”
  5. verb (transitive) To separate from the remainder of a group; often construed with from. “We need to sort out the problems we can solve from the ones we can't.”
  6. verb (transitive, UK, slang) To take action to stop someone who has been causing trouble, often by physically attacking them. “If you do that again, I'll soon sort you out.”
  7. verb (UK, slang) To provide (somebody) with a necessity, or a solution to a problem. “Hey man, I want some weed. —I'll sort you out, mate.”

Synonyms

classify class sort assort separate clear clear up shed light on crystallize crystallise crystalize crystalise straighten out enlighten illuminate elucidate discipline correct

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “sort out”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details