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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turnover

/ˈtɝnoʊvɚ/ noun, adjective

Forms turnovers

  1. noun The amount of money taken as sales transacted in a given period. “The company had an annual turnover of $500,000.”
  2. noun The frequency with which stock is replaced after being used or sold, workers leave and are replaced, a property changes hands, etc. “High staff-turnover can lead to low morale amongst employees.”
  3. noun A semicircular pastry made by turning one half of a circular crust over the other, enclosing the filling (such as fruit). “They only served me one apple turnover for breakfast.”
  4. noun (sports) A loss of possession of the ball without scoring. “The Nimrods committed another dismaying turnover en route to another humiliating loss.”
  5. noun A measure of leg speed: the frequency with which one takes strides when running, typically given in strides per minute.
  6. noun An act or process of turning something over. “a turnover in leadership”
  7. noun The act or result of overturning something; an upset. “a bad turnover in a carriage”
  8. noun (printing, publishing) Synonym of runover.
  9. adjective Capable of being turned over; designed to be turned over.

Synonyms

runover employee turnover turnover rate dollar volume upset overturn

Etymology

Deverbal from turn over.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act or result of turning over; an upset; as, a bad turnover in a carriage.
  2. noun A semicircular pie or tart made by turning one half of a circular crust over the other, inclosing the fruit or other materials.
  3. adjective Admitting of being turned over; made to be turned over; as, a turnover collar, etc.

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