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 over

verb

Forms turns over turning over turned over

  1. verb (transitive) To flip over; to rotate uppermost to bottom. “Turn over the box and look at the bottom.”
  2. verb (transitive, idiomatic) To relinquish; give back. “They turned over the evidence to the authorities.”
  3. verb (transitive, idiomatic) To transfer.
  4. verb (transitive, idiomatic) To produce, complete, or cycle through. “They can turn over about three hundred units per hour.”
  5. verb (transitive, business) To generate (a certain amount of money from sales). “The business turned over several million last year.”
  6. verb (transitive) To mull, ponder
  7. verb (transitive, intransitive) To spin the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine using the starter or hand crank in an attempt to make it run.
  8. verb (transitive, sports) To give up control (of the ball and thus the ability to score). “The Giants didn't turn the ball over in their last four games.”

Synonyms

pass hand reach pass on give overturn tip over upset knock over bowl over tump over roll dig delve cut into turn flip flip over consider debate moot deliberate

Etymology

From turn + over.

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