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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subclass

/ˈsʌbklæs/ noun, verb

Forms subclasses subclassing subclassed sub-class

  1. noun A secondary class within a main class.
  2. noun (taxonomy) A rank directly below class.
  3. noun (object-oriented programming) An object class derived from another class (its superclass) from which it inherits a base set of properties and methods.
  4. verb (transitive, computing) (in object-oriented programming) To create a subclass of (some class). “I subclassed the Button class to create a more specialised FancyButton class for my user interface.”
  5. verb (transitive, computing) To cause (an object) to act as an instance of a subclass (by creating the desired subclass and instantiating an object of this subclass).

Synonyms

subset child class derived class heir class

Antonyms

superclass superset unsubclass

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One of the natural groups, more important than an order, into which some classes are divided; as, the angiospermous subclass of exogens.

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