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 up

verb

Forms turns up turning up turned up turn ups

  1. verb (intransitive, copulative) To show up; to appear suddenly or unexpectedly. “Is this your t-shirt that turned up in my drawer?”
  2. verb (transitive) To cause to appear; to find by searching, etc. “I spent hours in the archives, but couldn't turn up anything on the alleged criminal.”
  3. verb (transitive) To increase the amount of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light. “Turn up the radio and sing along.”
  4. verb (transitive) To reposition by rotating, flipping, etc., upwards. “He turned up his collar against the cold.”
  5. verb (transitive, nautical) To belay or make fast (a line on a cleat or pin). “Turn up the main halyard.”
  6. verb (intransitive, slang) To party hard, especially when involving alcohol or drugs. “We're going to turn up at the concert tonight.”
  7. verb (transitive, UK, slang, obsolete) To acquit.
  8. verb (transitive, UK, slang) To sicken.

Synonyms

come on come out surface show up fold fold up locate prove turn out excavate dig up

Antonyms

turn down

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