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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shutter

/ˈʃʌtəː/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms shutters shuttering shuttered

  1. noun One who shuts or closes something.
  2. noun (usually in the plural) Each of a series of protective panels, usually wooden, placed over windows to block out the light.
  3. noun A similar screen used as an improvised stretcher to carry someone wounded or sick.
  4. noun (photography) The part of a camera, normally closed, that opens for a controlled period of time to let light in when taking a picture.
  5. noun Any other opening and closing device.
  6. noun (construction) A panel used to contain freshly poured concrete, which is usually removed when the concrete hardens.
  7. verb (transitive) To close shutters covering. “Shutter the windows: there's a storm coming!”
  8. verb (transitive, figurative) To close up (a building) for a prolonged period of inoccupancy. “It took all day to shutter the cabin now that the season has ended.”
  9. verb (transitive) To cancel or terminate. “The US is seeking to get Iran to shutter its nuclear weapons program.”
  10. verb To rain heavily.
  11. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

shuttering

Etymology

From shut + -er. Compare shuttle.

* Occupational surname for a marksman, from an agent derivative of Middle English shoten (“to shoot”).
* An Americanized spelling of Schutter.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who shuts or closes.
  2. noun A movable cover or screen for a window, designed to shut out the light, to obstruct the view, or to be of some strength as a defense; a blind.

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