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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takeaway

/ˈteɪkəweɪ/ adjective, noun

Forms takeaways take-away

  1. adjective (chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, Hong Kong, sometimes Philippines) (Of food) intended to be eaten off the premises from which it was bought. “I couldn't be bothered to cook, so I bought a takeaway curry.”
  2. noun (chiefly UK, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand) A restaurant that sells food to be eaten elsewhere. “If you're hungry, there's a takeaway just around the corner.”
  3. noun (chiefly UK, Australia and New Zealand) A meal which has been purchased and has been carefully packaged as to be taken and consumed elsewhere. “I fancy an Indian takeaway tonight.”
  4. noun (golf) The preliminary part of a golfer′s swing when the club is brought back away from the ball.
  5. noun (US) A concession made by a labor union in the course of negotiations.
  6. noun (informal, idiomatic, frequently in the plural) An idea from a talk, presentation, etc., that the listener or reader should remember and consider.

Synonyms

takeout carry out to go takeaways grab and go carryout food-to-go packed meal sound bite takeout food

Antonyms

eat-in for here have here

Etymology

Deverbal from take away.

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