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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ternary

UK /ˈtɜː.nə.ɹi/ · US /ˈtɝ.nə.ɹi/ adjective, noun

Forms ternaries

  1. adjective Made up of three things.
  2. adjective Arranged in groups of three.
  3. adjective (arithmetic) To the base three.
  4. adjective (arithmetic) Having three variables.
  5. adjective (chemistry) Containing, or consisting of, three different parts, as elements, atoms, groups, or radicals, which are regarded as having different functions or relations in the molecule. “Sodic hydroxide, NaOH, is a ternary compound.”
  6. adjective (programming) Of an operator taking three operands. “An "if…then…else" construction is called a ternary operator when it is combined in one line of a program.”
  7. noun A group of three things; a trio, threesome or tierce.
  8. noun (obsolete) The Holy Trinity.
  9. noun (programming) The ternary operator.

Synonyms

treble triadic triple triplex tern trinary trine threefold leash ternion threeness threesome triad trinity trio triplet troika three 3 III tierce tercet terzetto trey deuce-ace

Etymology

From Late Latin ternārius (“consisting of three things”), from ternī (“three each”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Proceeding by threes; consisting of three; as, the ternary number was anciently esteemed a symbol of perfection, and held in great veneration.
  2. adjective Containing, or consisting of, three different parts, as elements, atoms, groups, or radicals, which are regarded as having different functions or relations in the molecule; thus, sodic hydroxide, NaOH, is a ternary compound.
  3. noun A ternion; the number three; three things taken together; a triad.

Etymology [L. ternarius, fr. terni. See Tern, a.]

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