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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dominant

UK /ˈdɒmɪnənt/ · US /ˈdɑmənənt/ noun, adjective

Forms dominants

  1. noun (music) The fifth major tone of a musical scale (five major steps above the note in question); thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.
  2. noun (music) The triad built on the dominant tone.
  3. noun (genetics) Of an allele, that a heterozygote for the allele has the same phenotype as the homozygote.
  4. noun A species or organism that is dominant.
  5. noun (BDSM) The dominating partner in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
  6. adjective Ruling; governing; prevailing “The dominant party controlled the government.”
  7. adjective Predominant, common, prevalent, of greatest importance. “The dominant plants of the Carboniferous were lycopods and early conifers.”
  8. adjective (anatomy, physiology) Of a body part, preferred and used with greater dexterity than the other, as the right hand of a right-handed person or the left hand of a left-handed one.
  9. adjective (medicine) Designating the follicle which will survive atresia and permit ovulation.
  10. adjective (music) Being the dominant

Synonyms

dominator imposing prevalent dominant allele prevailing predominant rife

Antonyms

submissive obedient defiant rebellious subordinate recessive

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French dominant.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power.
  2. noun The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on. Dominant chord (Mus.), the chord based upon the dominant.

Etymology [L. dominans, -antis, p. pr. of dominari: cf. F. dominant. See Dominate.]

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