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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tier

UK /ˈtaɪ.ə/ · US /ˈtaɪ.ɚ/ noun, verb

Forms tiers tiering tiered

  1. noun One who ties (knots, etc.).
  2. noun Something that ties.
  3. noun (archaic) A child's apron.
  4. noun A row or range, especially one at a higher or lower level than another.
  5. noun A rank or grade; a stratum. “Stoke City were playing in the second tier of English football before being promoted to the Premier League.”
  6. noun (Australia) A (typically forested) range of hills or mountains, especially in South Australia or Tasmania; a mountain.
  7. noun A horizontal row of panels within a comic strip.
  8. verb (transitive) To arrange in layers.
  9. verb (transitive) To cascade in an overlapping sequence.
  10. verb (transitive, computing) To move (data) from one storage medium to another as an optimization, based on how frequently it is accessed.

Synonyms

grade level tier up

Etymology

From tie + -er.

From Middle French tier, from Old French tire (“rank, sequence, order, kind”), probably from tirer (“to draw, draw out”). Alternatively, from a Germanic source related to Middle English tir (“honour, glory, power, rule”), Old English tīr (“glory, honour, fame”), Old Norse tírr (“glory, honour, renown”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, ties.
  2. noun A chold's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore. [Written also tire.]
  3. noun A row or rank, especially one of two or more rows placed one above, or higher than, another; as, a tier of seats in a theater.

Etymology [See Tire a headdress.]

Etymology [Perhaps fr. OF. tire, F. tire; probably of Teutonic origin; cf. OHG. ziari ornament, G. zier, AS. tir glory, tiér row, rank. But cf. also F. tirer to draw, pull; of Teutonic origin. Cf. Attire, v. t., Tire a headdress, but also Tirade.]

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