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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impact

/ˈɪmpækt/ noun, verb

Forms impacts impacting impacted

  1. noun The striking of one body against another; collision.
  2. noun The force or energy of a collision of two objects. “The hatchet cut the wood on impact.”
  3. noun (chiefly medicine) A forced impinging. “His spine had an impingement; L4 and L5 made impact, which caused numbness in his leg.”
  4. noun (figurative, proscribed) A significant or strong influence or effect. “His friend's opinion had an impact on his decision.”
  5. verb (transitive) To collide or strike, the act of impinging. “When the hammer impacts the nail, it bends.”
  6. verb (transitive) To compress; to compact; to press into something or pack together. “The footprints of birds do not impact the soil in the way those of dinosaurs do.”
  7. verb (transitive, figurative, proscribed) To significantly or strongly influence or affect; to have an impact on. “I can make the changes, but it will impact the schedule.”
  8. verb (transitive, rare) To stamp or impress onto something. “Ideas impacted on the mind.”

Synonyms

percussion wallop impingement encroachment shock affect bear upon bear on touch on touch

Etymology

Attested since the 17th century, from Latin impāctus.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place. Woodward.
  2. noun Contact or impression by touch; collision; forcible contact; force communicated.
  3. noun The single instantaneous stroke of a body in motion against another either in motion or at rest.

Etymology [L. impactus, p. p. of impingere to push, strike against. See Impinge.]

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