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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check out

verb

Forms checks out checking out checked out

  1. verb (transitive) To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.). “He checked his favorite mystery out for the twenty-third time.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To record one's departure from a workplace, hotel, restaurant, etc. “Be sure to check out of the hotel before noon.”
  3. verb (transitive) To examine, inspect, look at closely, ogle; to investigate; to gather information so as to make a decision. “He was hanging out at the beach, checking out the young women in bikinis.”
  4. verb (transitive, programming) To obtain source code (or other material) from a source control repository so that one can modify it (and often later check in the modified version).
  5. verb (intransitive) To become uninterested in an activity and cease to participate in more than a perfunctory manner; to become uncooperative.
  6. verb (intransitive) To become catatonic or otherwise nonresponsive.
  7. verb (intransitive) To leave in a hurry.
  8. verb (intransitive, euphemistic, by extension) To die.

Synonyms

check track figure make sense add up check up on look into suss out check over go over check into run down cheque sound out feel out

Antonyms

check in

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