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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minus

/ˈmaɪ.nəs/ preposition, noun, adjective, verb, proper noun

Forms minuses minusses minusing minussing minused minussed

  1. preposition (mathematics) Made less or reduced by (followed by an expression of number or quantity). “Seven minus two is five.”
  2. preposition (informal) Without; deprived of. “I walked out minus my coat.”
  3. noun (mathematics) The minus sign (−).
  4. noun (mathematics) A negative quantity.
  5. noun A downside or disadvantage.
  6. adjective Being a negative quantity; pertaining to a deficit or reduction. “a minus number”
  7. adjective That is below zero by (a specified amount) on a scale. “minus seven degrees”
  8. adjective (colloquial, obsolete) Worse off than before; out of pocket.
  9. adjective (postpositive) Ranking just below (a designated rating). “He got a grade of B minus for his essay.”
  10. verb (transitive, colloquial) To subtract.
  11. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

less lacking without defect deficiency drawback flaw shortcoming below zero negative subtraction

Antonyms

plus plus sign antonym(s) of advantage bonus boon gain

Etymology

From Middle English mynus, from Latin minus, neuter form of minor, comparative form of parvus (“small, little”), from the Proto-Indo-European root *mey- (“few, small”).

Unexplained.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Less; requiring to be subtracted; negative; as, a minus quantity. Minus sign (Math.), the sign [-] denoting minus, or less, prefixed to negative quantities, or quantities to be subtracted. See Negative sign, under Negative.

Etymology [L. See Minor, and cf. Mis- pref. from the French.]

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

Sanskrit

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