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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throw up

verb, interjection

Forms throws up throwing up threw up thrown up throwup throw-up

  1. verb Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see throw, up.
  2. verb (ambitransitive, now informal, bacteriology) To vomit. “The baby threw up all over my shirt.”
  3. verb (transitive) To produce or reveal something new or unexpected. “This system has thrown up a few problems.”
  4. verb (transitive) To cause something such as dust or water to rise into the air. “The car wheels threw up a shower of stones.”
  5. verb (transitive, chiefly dated) To erect, particularly hastily.
  6. verb (ambitransitive) To give up, abandon something.
  7. verb (transitive) To display a gang sign using the hands.
  8. verb (dated, transitive) To enlarge, as a picture reflected on a screen.
  9. interjection (dismissal) Used as an expression of frustration or to dismiss a conversation partner.

Synonyms

chuck up hurl upchuck vomit run up knock up throw together knock together slap together vomit up purge cast sick cat be sick disgorge regorge retch puke barf spew spue chuck honk regurgitate

Etymology

The vomit sense is a clipping of throw up one's accounts (18th century), from earlier idiom cast up one's accounts (15th century).

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