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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invert

UK /ɪnˈvɜːt/ · US /ɪnˈvɜɹt/ verb, noun, adjective

Forms inverts inverting inverted

  1. verb (transitive) To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction; to make (something) the opposite of it.
  2. verb (transitive, music) To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.
  3. verb (chemistry, intransitive) To undergo inversion, as sugar.
  4. verb To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
  5. verb (anatomy) To turn (the foot) inwards.
  6. noun (architecture) An inverted arch (as in a sewer).
  7. noun The base of a tunnel on which the road or railway may be laid and used when construction is through unstable ground. It may be flat or form a continuous curve with the tunnel arch.
  8. noun (civil engineering) The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
  9. noun (civil engineering) An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.
  10. noun A skateboarding and snowboarding trick where the skater grabs the board and plants a hand on the coping so as to balance upside-down on the lip of a ramp.
  11. noun (obsolete, psychology) A homosexual person, in terms of the sexual inversion theory.
  12. noun (Internet slang, conspiracy theories) Of a person, assumed to be transgender, in terms of transvestigation.
  13. adjective (chemistry) Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted. “invert sugar”
  14. noun (zoology, informal) An invertebrate.

Synonyms

reverse up-end turn back

Antonyms

normalize standardise unreverse

Etymology

From Middle French invertir.

Abbreviation of invertebrate.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To turn over; to put upside down; to upset; to place in a contrary order or direction; to reverse; as, to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc. That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears, As if these organs had deceptious functions. Shak.
  2. verb To change the position of; --said of tones which form a chord, or parts which compose harmony.
  3. verb To undergo inversion, as sugar.
  4. adjective Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted; as, invert sugar. Invert sugar (Chem.), a variety of sugar, consisting of a mixture of dextrose and levulose, found naturally in fruits, and produced artificially by the inversion of cane sugar (sucrose); also, less properly, the grape sugar or dextrose obtained from starch. See Inversion, Dextrose, Levulose, and Sugar.

Etymology [L. invertere, inversum; pref. in- in + vertere to turn. See Verse.]

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

Sanskrit

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