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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stint

/stɪnt/ verb, noun

Forms stints stinting stinted

  1. verb (archaic, intransitive) To stop (an action); cease, desist.
  2. verb (obsolete, intransitive) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
  3. verb (intransitive) To be sparing or mean. “The next party you throw, don't stint on the beer.”
  4. verb (transitive) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
  5. verb To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour for that day or period; to stent.
  6. verb (of mares) To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.
  7. noun A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell. “He had a stint in jail.”
  8. noun Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
  9. noun Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
  10. noun (motor racing) A part of the race between two consecutive pit stops.
  11. noun Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.

Synonyms

anchor astand blin brake cease desist draw up grind to a halt halt hold immobilize leave off rest stall stay stop swike skimp stretch least sandpiper Erolia minutilla scrimp scant

Etymology

From Middle English stinten, from Old English styntan (“to make blunt”) and *stintan (attested in āstintan (“to make dull, stint, assuage”)), from Proto-West Germanic *stuntijan, from Proto-Germanic *stuntijaną and Proto-Germanic *stintaną (“to make short”), probably influenced in some senses by cognate Old Norse *stynta, stytta (“to make short, shorten”).

Origin unknown.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance.
  2. verb To put an end to; to stop. [Obs.] Shak.
  3. verb To stop; to cease. [Archaic]
  4. noun Limit; bound; restraint; extent.

Etymology [OE. stinten, stenten, stunten, to cause to cease, AS. styntan (in comp.) to blunt, dull, fr. stunt dull, stupid; akin to Icel. stytta to shorten, stuttr short, dial, Sw. stynta to shorten, stunt short. Cf. Stent, Stunt.]

Etymology [Also written stent. See Stint, v. t.]

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