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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torus

UK /ˈtɔː.ɹəs/ · US /toʊ̯ɹəs/ noun

Forms tori toruses

  1. noun (topology) A topological space which is a product of two circles. “A 4-variable Karnaugh map can be thought of, topologically, as being a torus.”
  2. noun (topology, in combination, n-torus, 4-torus, etc.) The product of the specified number of circles.
  3. noun A ring-shaped object, especially a large ring-shaped chamber used in physical research.
  4. noun (architecture) A large convex molding, typically semicircular in cross section, which commonly projects at the base of a column and above the plinth.
  5. noun (anatomy) A rounded ridge of bone or muscle, especially one on the occipital bone.
  6. noun (botany) The end of the peduncle or flower stalk to which the floral parts (or in the Asteraceae, the florets of a flower head) are attached.
  7. noun (botany) The thickening of a membrane closing a wood-cell pit (as of gymnosperm tracheids) having the secondary cell wall arched over the pit cavity.

Synonyms

toroid receptacle thalamus tore

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin torus (“a round, swelling, elevation, protuberance”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A lage molding used in the bases of columns. Its profile is semicircular. See Illust. of Molding. Brande&C.
  2. noun One of the ventral parapodia of tubicolous annelids. It usually has the form of an oblong thickening or elevation of the integument with rows of uncini or hooks along the center. See Illust. under Tubicolæ.

Etymology [L., a round, swelling, or bulging place, an elevation. Cf. 3d Tore.]

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