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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trig

/tɹɪɡ/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms trigger triggest trigs trigging trigged

  1. adjective True; trusty; trustworthy; faithful.
  2. adjective Safe; secure.
  3. adjective Tight; firm; steady; sound; in good condition or health.
  4. adjective Neat; tidy; trim; spruce; smart.
  5. adjective Active; clever.
  6. noun (now chiefly dialectal) A dandy; coxcomb.
  7. noun (uncountable, informal) Trigonometry.
  8. noun (surveying, countable, informal) A trig point.
  9. noun (UK) A stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid.
  10. noun The mark for players at skittles, etc.
  11. verb (transitive) To stop (a wheel, barrel, etc.) by placing something under it; to scotch; to skid.
  12. verb To fill; to stuff; to cram.
  13. noun (medicine, informal) Triglyceride.
  14. noun (entomology) A cricket in the family Trigonidiidae.

Synonyms

trigonometry clean-cut trim

Etymology

From Middle English trig, tryg, from Old Norse tryggr (“loyal, faithful, true”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiz (“loyal, faithful, true”). Cognate with Old English trīewe (“faithful, loyal, true”). More at true.

Clipping of trigonometry.

See trigger.

Compare Danish trykke (“to press”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To fill; to stuff; to cram. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.
  2. adjective Full; also, trim; neat. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
  3. verb To stop, as a wheel, by placing something under it; to scotch; to skid.
  4. noun A stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid. [Eng.] Wright.

Etymology [Cf. Dan. trykke to press, Sw. trycka.]

Etymology [Formerly written trick, akin to trick to dress.]

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