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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alert

UK /əˈlɜːt/ · US /əˈlɝt/ adjective, noun, verb, proper noun

Forms alerts alerting alerted

  1. adjective Attentive; awake; on guard.
  2. adjective (obsolete) brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.
  3. noun An alarm.
  4. noun A notification of higher importance than an advisory.
  5. noun (military) A state of readiness for potential combat. “an airborne alert; ground alert”
  6. noun (computing) Synonym of bell (“bell character”).
  7. verb To give warning to.
  8. proper noun A community in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada; the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world.
  9. proper noun An alternative name for Alharod, a village in Varzaqan County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran.
  10. proper noun An unincorporated community in Jackson Township, Decatur County, Indiana, United States.

Synonyms

wakeful bell qui vive alerting alarm warning signal alarum watchful brisk lively merry rattling snappy spanking zippy alive awake

Antonyms

unalert

Etymology

From French alerte (“alert”), from the phrase à l'erte (“on the watch”), from Italian all'erta (“to the height”), from erta (“lookout, tower”).

Formed within English by conversion, from alert (adjective). Compare French alerter.

After HMS Alert

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Watchful; vigilant; active in vigilance.
  2. adjective Brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.
  3. noun An alarm from a real or threatened attack; a sudden attack; also, a bugle sound to give warning. "We have had an alert." Farrow.

Etymology [F. alerte, earlier à l'erte on the watch, fr. It. all' erta on the watch, prop. (standing) on a height, where one can look around; erta a declivity, steep, erto steep, p. p. of ergere, erigere, to erect, raise, L. erigere. See Erect.]

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “alert” (best matches first).