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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apex

/ˈeɪ.pɛks/ noun

Forms apices apexes

  1. noun The highest or the greatest part of something, especially forming a point. “the apex of the building”
  2. noun (geometry) The highest point in a plane or solid figure, relative to a base line or plane.
  3. noun The lowest part of the human heart.
  4. noun The deepest part of a tooth's root.
  5. noun (botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ opposed to the end where it is attached to its support.
  6. noun (botany) The growing point of a shoot.
  7. noun (astronomy) The point on the celestial sphere toward which the Sun appears to move relative to nearby stars.
  8. noun (physics) The lowest point on a pendant drop of a liquid.

Synonyms

peak top summit vertex end tip acme culmination height pinnacle zenith apogee apotheosis ascendance capstone climax coronation crown extreme fastigium solar apex apex of the sun's way

Antonyms

bathos lowest ebb nadir slough of despond trough antapex

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin apex (“point, tip, summit”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The tip, top, point, or angular summit of anything; as, the apex of a mountain, spire, or cone; the apex, or tip, of a leaf.
  2. noun The end or edge of a vein nearest the surface. [U.S.] Apex of the earth's motion (Astron.), that point of the heavens toward which the earth is moving in its orbit.

Etymology [L.]

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

Sanskrit

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