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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disorder

UK /dɪsˈɔːdə(ɹ)/ · US /dɪsˈɔɹdɚ/ noun, verb

Forms disorders disordering disordered disordre

  1. noun Absence of order; state of not being arranged in an orderly manner. “After playing the children left the room in disorder.”
  2. noun A disturbance of civic peace or of public order. “The class was thrown into disorder when the teacher left the room”
  3. noun (medicine, countable) A physical or mental malfunction. “Bulimia is an eating disorder.”
  4. verb (transitive) To throw into a state of disorder.
  5. verb (transitive) To knock out of order or sequence.

Synonyms

chaos disease illness entropy bedlam car crash confusion disarray disorganization dog's breakfast dog's dinner free-for-all fuddle hash hot mess imbroglio mash maze mess misorder upset disorderliness perturb unhinge disquiet trouble cark distract

Antonyms

order

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French desordre (modern French désordre), from Old French desordre, from des- + ordre; by surface analysis, dis- + order (<< Latin ōrdō).
Compare typologically Russian непоря́док (neporjádok), беспоря́док (besporjádok), неуря́дица (neurjádica) (akin to ряд (rjad), поря́док (porjádok)).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder.
  2. noun Neglect of order or system; irregularity.
  3. verb To disturb the order of; to derange or disarrange; to throw into confusion; to confuse.
  4. verb To disturb or interrupt the regular and natural functions of (either body or mind); to produce sickness or indisposition in; to discompose; to derange; as, to disorder the head or stomach.

Etymology [Pref. dis- + order: cf. F. désordre.]

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

Sanskrit

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