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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turn off

verb

Forms turns off turning off turned off

  1. verb Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see turn, off. “He turned off from me and faced the far wall.”
  2. verb (transitive) To power down, to switch off, to put out of operation, to deactivate (an appliance, light, mechanism, functionality etc.). “Turn off the machine and unplug it when you leave.”
  3. verb (transitive, by extension) To deactivate a heat source cooking a particular item. “You can turn off the green beans now.”
  4. verb (intransitive, of a machine, etc.) To become deactivated; to become powered down. “My computer turned off!”
  5. verb (transitive) To rotate a tap or valve so as to interrupt the outflow of liquid or gas. “Remember to turn the tap off once you've finished so you don't waste water.”
  6. verb (transitive, obsolete) To dismiss; to fire. “The butler turned off that foolish maid.”
  7. verb (transitive) To bore, repulse, disgust, or discourage (someone). “That book's plot was so predictable, it turned me off.”
  8. verb (intransitive) To leave a road; to exit a highway or other main road. “You'll need to turn off before we get to the county line.”

Synonyms

shut off switch off shut down cut off cut deactivate disable turn out put off

Antonyms

turn on

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