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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twilight zone

noun, verb

Forms twilight zones twilight zoning twilight zoned

  1. noun (astronomy, astrophysics) A moving line that divides the daylit side and the dark night side of a planetary body.
  2. noun (figuratively, by extension) A region or context located in between others and therefore not subject to their norms.
  3. noun (geography) A deteriorating area surrounding a central business district.
  4. noun Synonym of mesopelagic zone (“the part of the ocean where there is very minimal light, located below the photic epipelagic zone but above the aphotic bathypelagic zone.”).
  5. verb (transitive, intransitive, idiomatic) To put or place into an indeterminate position; to be in an ambiguous, undetermined, or improper context.
  6. verb (transitive, idiomatic) To cause to daydream or zone out; to cause to lose attention to one's surroundings.
  7. noun (figuratively) A region in which surreal, supernatural, or fantastic events occur.
  8. verb (intransitive, idiomatic) To experience or perceive something bizarre or fantastic.
  9. verb (intransitive, idiomatic) To behave or occur in a confusing or unexpected manner.

Synonyms

terminator shadowland mesopelagic zone no man's land

Etymology

Because such a zone (in the literal sense of the term) is twilit; see twilight § Etymology.

From the anthology television series The Twilight Zone, first aired in 1959, whose name was inspired by the astrophysical sense.

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