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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or

UK /ɔː(ɹ)/ · US /oɹ/ conjunction, noun, adjective, adverb, preposition, proper noun

Forms ors

  1. conjunction Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc., each of which could make a passage true. “You may stay or go.”
  2. conjunction (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms: the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
  3. conjunction Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
  4. conjunction Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). “It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!”
  5. conjunction Connects two equivalent names. “The country Myanmar, or Burma”
  6. conjunction Used in between two numbers to denote a range between them. “A man of 18 or 20 years”
  7. noun (heraldry) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
  8. adjective (heraldry) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
  9. adverb (obsolete) Early (on).
  10. adverb (obsolete) Earlier, previously.
  11. preposition (archaic or dialectal) Before; ere. Generally followed by “ever” or “e'er”.
  12. conjunction (logic) Inclusive or; either one proposition or the other is true or both.
  13. conjunction (computer science) A lexical symbol to implement inclusive or in a computer language.
  14. conjunction (electrical engineering) A logic gate to implement inclusive or.
  15. noun (logic) The binary operator inclusive or, true if one at least one of two inputs is true. In infix notation.
  16. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

o. gold ∨ Oregon Beaver State operating room operating theater operating theatre surgery

Antonyms

NOR

Etymology

From Middle English or; partially contracted from other, auther, from Old English āþor, āwþer, āhwæþer ("some, any, either"; > either); and partially from Middle English oththe, from Old English oþþe, from Proto-Germanic *efþau (“or”).
Cognate with West Frisian of (“or”), Cimbrian odar, òdar (“or”), Dutch of, oft, ofte (“or”), German, Luxembourgish, and Vilamovian oder (“or”), Low German of, àder, àr, åder, år (“or”), Yiddish אָדער (oder, “or”), Icelandic eða, eður (“or”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐌸𐌸𐌰𐌿 (aiþþau, “or; otherwise”).

From late Middle English or (“gold”), borrowed from Middle French or (“yellow”), from Old French or, from Latin aurum (“gold”). Doublet of aurum.

From Late Old English ār, from Old Norse ár. Compare ere.

From Etymology 1 (sense 2 above).

Webster’s 1913

  1. conjunction A particle that marks an alternative; as, you may read or may write, --that is, you may do one of the things at your pleasure, but not both. It corresponds to either. You may ride either to London or to Windsor. It often connects a series of words or propositions, presenting a choice of either; as, he may study law, or medicine, or divinity, or he may enter into trade.
  2. preposition Ere; before; sooner than. [Obs.]
  3. noun Yellow or gold color, --represented in drawing or engraving by small dots.

Etymology [OE. or, outher, other, auther, either, or, AS. aw, contr. from ahwæ; a aye + hwæ whether. See Aye, and Whether, and cf. Either.]

Etymology [AS. ere, before. sq. root204. See Ere, prep. & adv.]

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