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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dismount

/dɪsˈmaʊnt/ verb, noun

Forms dismounts dismounting dismounted

  1. verb (ambitransitive) To (cause to) get off (something). “She carefully dismounted from the horse.”
  2. verb (computing, ambitransitive) To make (a mounted drive) unavailable for use. “The VMS operator tried to dismount the Unix hard drive with the DISMOUNT DISK$NFSMOUNT command, instead of umount /mnt/nfshome.”
  3. verb (intransitive) To come down; to descend.
  4. verb (military, transitive) To throw (cannon) off their carriages.
  5. noun The act of stepping down from something being ridden, such as a skateboard. “Nice dismount!”
  6. noun (gymnastics) The part of a routine in which the gymnast detaches from an apparatus. “It was a stylish routine, let down by a sloppy dismount.”

Synonyms

umount unmount unhorse light get off get down

Antonyms

get on mount

Etymology

From dis- + mount, probably a calque of Old French desmonter.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To come down; to descend. [Poetic]
  2. verb To alight from a horse; to descend or get off, as a rider from his beast; as, the troops dismounted.
  3. verb To throw or bring down from an elevation, place of honor and authority, or the like.
  4. verb To throw or remove from a horse; to unhorse; as, the soldier dismounted his adversary.

Etymology [Pref. dis- + mount: cf. OF. desmonter, F. démonter.]

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

Sanskrit

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