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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take off

verb

Forms takes off taking off took off taken off take offs

  1. verb (transitive) To remove. “He took off his shoes.”
  2. verb (usually transitive) To imitate (somebody), often in a satirical manner.
  3. verb (intransitive) To leave the ground and ascend into the air or into flight. “The plane has been cleared to take off from runway 3.”
  4. verb (surfing) To stand up on a surfboard and begin to surf a breaking wave.
  5. verb (intransitive) To become successful, to flourish. “The business has really taken off this year and has made quite a profit.”
  6. verb (intransitive) To depart. “I'm going to take off now.”
  7. verb (transitive) To quantify. “I'll take off the concrete and steel for this construction project.”
  8. verb (ambitransitive) To absent oneself from (work or other responsibility), especially with permission. “If you take off for Thanksgiving you must work Christmas and vice versa.”

Synonyms

doff ape imitate impersonate mimic bloom blossom flourish grow thrive depart part start start out set forth set off set out lift off take time off get off the ground subtract deduct

Antonyms

don put on land touch down

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