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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truncate

UK /tɹʌŋˈkeɪt/ · US /ˈtɹʌŋˌke̯ɪ̯t/ verb, adjective

Forms truncates truncating truncated

  1. verb (transitive) To shorten (something) by, or as if by, cutting part of it off. “The script was truncated to leave time for commercials.”
  2. verb (mathematics, transitive) To shorten (a decimal number) by removing trailing (or leading) digits.
  3. verb (geometry) To replace a corner by a plane (or to make a similar change to a crystal).
  4. adjective Truncated.
  5. adjective (botany, anatomy) Having an abrupt termination.

Synonyms

round down cut short truncated

Etymology

From Latin truncātus, perfect passive participle of truncō (“maim, reduce to a trunk”); see trunk as a verb.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To cut off; to lop; to maim.
  2. adjective Appearing as if cut off at the tip; as, a truncate leaf or feather.

Etymology [L. truncatus, p. p. of truncare to cut off, mutilate, fr. truncus maimed, mutilated, cut short. See Trunk.]

Etymology [L. truncatus, p. p.]

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