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 out

verb

Forms turns out turning out turned out

  1. verb (intransitive, idiomatic, copulative) To end up; to result. “I had hoped our first meeting would turn out better.”
  2. verb (intransitive, by ellipsis) To succeed; work out; turn out well. “I'm afraid the cake didn't turn out.”
  3. verb (intransitive, idiomatic) To attend; show up. “Hundreds of people turned out to see the parade.”
  4. verb (intransitive, dated) To go out; to leave one's home.
  5. verb (transitive, idiomatic) To extinguish a light or other device. “Turn out the lights before you leave.”
  6. verb (intransitive, idiomatic) To become apparent or known, especially (as) it turns out “It turns out that he just made a lucky guess.”
  7. verb (transitive, idiomatic) To produce; make. “The bakery turns out three hundred pies each day.”
  8. verb (intransitive) To leave a road. “Turn out at the third driveway.”

Synonyms

turn off switch out switch off harlotize whore out dog out hustle mack pander pimp pimp out ponce prostitute punk whore abuse Shawshank violate constuprate defile prove turn up come out bear eject chuck out exclude turf out boot out splay

Antonyms

turn in

Etymology

From Middle English turnen out, tornen out, equivalent to turn + out.
The slang and prison terms meaning "to turn into a prostitute, etc." are probably an ellipsis for turn (inside) out (“to flip someone's character or role”).

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