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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“Slamming” is a form of

slam

/ˈslæm/ verb, noun

Forms slams slamming slammed

  1. verb (transitive, ergative) To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise. “Don't slam the door!”
  2. verb (transitive, ergative) To put in or on a particular place with force and loud noise. (Often followed by a preposition such as down, against or into.) “Don't slam that trunk down on the pavement!”
  3. verb (ambitransitive) To strike forcefully with some implement.
  4. verb (intransitive) To strike against suddenly and heavily. “The boat slammed into the bank and we were almost thrown into the river.”
  5. verb (transitive, slang) To strike and take the life of or at least incapacitate for some time.
  6. verb (transitive, sports slang) To defeat or overcome in a match. “The Armenian football team has slammed the Turks 6–0.”
  7. verb (transitive, colloquial, originally US) To speak badly of; to criticize forcefully. “Don't ever slam me in front of the boss like that again!”
  8. verb To compete in a poetry slam.
  9. noun (countable) A sudden impact or blow.
  10. noun (countable) The shock and noise produced by violently closing a door or other object.
  11. noun (countable, basketball) A slam dunk.
  12. noun (countable, tennis) One of the competitions of the yearly Grand Slam events.
  13. noun (countable, colloquial, US) An insult. “I don't mean this as a slam, but you can be really impatient sometimes.”
  14. noun (uncountable, UK, dialect) The yellow iron silicate produced in alum works as a waste product.
  15. noun A poetry slam.
  16. noun A slambook.
  17. noun (uncountable, obsolete) A type of card game, also called ruff and honours.
  18. noun A card game, played all at once without separate turns, in which players attempt to get rid of their cards as quickly as possible according to certain rules.
  19. noun (countable, card games) Losing or winning all the tricks in a game.
  20. noun (countable, bridge) A bid of six (small slam) or seven (grand slam) in a suit or no trump.

Synonyms

admonish animadvert bash bawl out tilt cannonade slash lash blame scorch blast berate berisp castigate censure charge chastise chew out chide condemn sweep shot shaft dig barb jibe gibe bang slam dance mosh

Antonyms

back support

Etymology

From Middle English *slammen (not recorded), apparently from a Scandinavian source ultimately from Old Norse slæma, slœma (“to slam, swing a weapon, strike an object out of reach”), related to Old Norse slamra, slambra (“to slam”). Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål slamre (“to slam”), Swedish slamra (“to pound, beat, make a clatter, rattle”), Norwegian Nynorsk slamra (“to sway, dangle”).

Unknown and long-speculated, though perhaps at least reinforced by Etymology 1. Doublet of chelem.

Compare Dutch slomp, German Schlampe.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To shut with force and a loud noise; to bang; as, he slammed the door.
  2. verb To put in or on some place with force and loud noise; --usually with down; as, to slam a trunk down on the pavement.
  3. verb To come or swing against something, or to shut, with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise; as, a door or shutter slams.
  4. noun The act of one who, or that which, slams.

Etymology [Of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. slamra, slambra, sl, Norw. slemba, slemma, dial. Sw. slämma.]

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