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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lower

UK /ˈləʊ.ə/ · US /ˈloʊ.ɚ/ adjective, verb, noun, proper noun

Also a form of lour low

Forms lowers lowering lowered

  1. adjective Bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object.
  2. adjective Situated on lower ground, nearer a coast, or more southerly. “Lower Manhattan”
  3. adjective (geology, of strata or geological time periods) Older.
  4. verb (transitive) To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down. “lower a bucket into a well”
  5. verb (transitive) To pull down. “to lower a flag”
  6. verb (transitive) To reduce the height of. “lower a fence or wall”
  7. verb (transitive) To depress as to direction. “lower the aim of a gun”
  8. verb (transitive) To make less elevated. “to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes”
  9. verb (transitive) To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of. “lower the temperature”
  10. verb (transitive) To bring down; to humble. “lower one's pride”
  11. verb (reflexive) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity. “I could never lower myself enough to buy second-hand clothes.”
  12. noun A bicycle suspension fork component.
  13. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

bring down shorten reduce turn down descend be humble cut die off become get smaller drop fall fall off shrink get lower lessen lower berth take down let down get down lour depress frown glower

Antonyms

higher upper raise

Etymology

From low + -er (comparative suffix).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Compar. of Low, a.
  2. verb To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down; as, to lower a bucket into a well; to lower a sail or a boat; sometimes, to pull down; as, to lower a flag.
  3. verb To reduce the height of; as, to lower a fence or wall; to lower a chimney or turret.
  4. verb To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease; as, the river lowered as rapidly as it rose.

Etymology [From Low, a.]

Etymology [OE. lowren, luren; cf. D. loeren, LG. luren. G. lauern to lurk, to be on the watch, and E. leer, lurk.]

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

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