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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preempt

/ˌpɹiːˈɛmpt/ verb, noun

Forms preempts preempting preempted pre-empt præempt

  1. verb (transitive) To appropriate first. “He preempted that hill to be its king.”
  2. verb (transitive) To displace or take the place of (by having higher precedence, etc). “Floppy disks were preempted by CDs.”
  3. verb (transitive) To prevent or beat to the punch, to forestall an expected occurrence by acting first.
  4. verb (transitive) To secure (land, etc.) by the right of preemption (purchasing before others, e.g. land because one already occupies it).
  5. verb (bridge, intransitive) To make a preemptive bid at bridge.
  6. noun (bridge) A preemptive bid.
  7. noun (publishing) A guaranteed publication deal contingent upon the work being immediately taken off the market and offered to nobody else.
  8. verb Dated spelling of preempt.

Synonyms

ninja preemptive bid pre-empt displace

Etymology

Back-formation from preemption.

Back-formation from preëmption.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To settle upon (public land) with a right of preemption, as under the laws of the United States; to take by preëmption.

Etymology [See Preëmption.]

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