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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erect

/ɪˈɹɛkt/ adjective, verb

Forms erects erecting erected

  1. adjective Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
  2. adjective (of body parts) Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly, especially as the result of stimulation. “The penis should be fully erect before commencing copulation.”
  3. adjective (of a person) Having an erect penis or clitoris. “OK, baby, I'm erect now. Let's get it on!”
  4. adjective (obsolete) Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
  5. adjective (obsolete) Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
  6. adjective Watchful; alert.
  7. adjective (heraldry) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
  8. verb (transitive) To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts. “to erect a house or a fort”
  9. verb (transitive) To cause to stand up or out.
  10. verb To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise. “to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc.”
  11. verb (intransitive, aviation, of a gyroscopic attitude indicator) To spin up and align to vertical. “As soon as electrical power was restored, the attitude indicators' gyros would have begun to erect.”
  12. verb (transitive) To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
  13. verb (transitive) To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
  14. verb (transitive, astrology) To cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.).
  15. verb (intransitive) To enter a state of physiological erection.

Synonyms

hard stiff build raise rear set up put up vertical upright tumid

Antonyms

flaccid unerect

Etymology

From Middle English erect, a borrowing from Latin ērectus (“upright”), past participle of ērigō (“raise, set up”), from ē- (“out”) + regō (“to direct, keep straight, guide”).

From Middle English erecten, from the adjective (see above).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect.
  2. adjective Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
  3. verb To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise; as, to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc.
  4. verb To raise, as a building; to build; to construct; as, to erect a house or a fort; to set up; to put together the component parts of, as of a machine.

Etymology [L. erectus, p. p. of erigere to erect; e out + regere to lead straight. See Right, and cf. Alert.]

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

Sanskrit

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