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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starboard

UK /ˈstɑː.bəd/ · US /ˈstɑɹ.bɚd/ noun, verb

Forms starboards starboarding starboarded

  1. noun The righthand side of a ship, boat or aircraft when facing the front, or fore or bow. Used to unambiguously refer to directions according to the sides of the vessel, rather than those of a crew member or object. “I see another vessel off the starboard side.”
  2. noun (nautical) One of the two traditional watches aboard a ship standing a watch in two.
  3. verb (nautical, transitive) To put to the right, or starboard, side of a vessel.
  4. noun (social media) A list that shows messages starred in a community space.
  5. noun (social media, figurative, synecdochic) A system that enables such a list.

Synonyms

right

Antonyms

port backboard larboard leeboard left

Etymology

From Middle English sterbord, stere-bourd, stere-burd, from Old English stēorbord, from Proto-West Germanic *steurubord, equivalent to steer + board (“side (of a ship)”), referring to ancient ships with the steering oar set to the right (to accommodate right-handed crew). Ships had to dock on their left (port) side because the steering oar on the right would get in the way, which is how the left became known as the port side.

From star + board. The earliest known use was in 2013 on Meta Stack Exchange.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun That side of a vessel which is one of the right hand of a person who stands on board facing the bow; --opposed to Ant: larboard, or Ant: port.
  2. adjective Pertaining to the right-hand side of a ship; being or lying on the right side; as, the starboard quarter; starboard tack.
  3. verb To put to the right, or starboard, side of a vessel; as, to starboard the helm.

Etymology [OE. sterbord, AS. steórbord, i.e., steer board. See Steer, v. t., Board of a vessel, and cf. Larboard.]

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