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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multiple

/ˈmʌltɪpəl/ determiner, adjective, noun

Forms multiples

  1. determiner More than one (followed by plural). [from late 20th c.] “My Swiss Army knife has multiple blades.”
  2. adjective Having more than one element, part, component, or function, having more than one instance, occurring more than once, usually contrary to expectations (can be followed by a singular). “Some states do explicitly prohibit multiple citizenship.”
  3. adjective (multiplicity) Of a person: displaying or experiencing two or more distinct personalities or selves in one body.
  4. noun (mathematics) A whole number that is obtained by multiplying a specific whole number by another whole number.
  5. noun (finance) Price-earnings ratio.
  6. noun One of a set of the same thing; a duplicate.
  7. noun (multiplicity) A single individual who displays or experiences multiple personalities or selves.
  8. noun One of a set of siblings produced by a multiple birth.
  9. noun A chain store.
  10. noun A discovery resulting from the work of many people throughout history, not merely the work of the person who makes the final connection.
  11. noun More than one piercing in a single ear.

Synonyms

manifold many morefold several plural system

Antonyms

paucal single

Etymology

From French multiple, itself from Late Latin multiplus.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Containing more than once, or more than one; consisting of more than one; manifold; repeated many times; having several, or many, parts. Law of multiple proportion (Chem.), the generalization that when the same elements unite in more than one proportion, forming two or more different compounds, the higher proportions of the elements in such compounds are simple multiplies of the lowest proportion, or the proportions are connected by some simple common factor; thus, iron and oxygen unite in the proportions FeO, Fe2O3, Fe3O4, in which compounds, considering the oxygen, 3 and 4 are simple multipl
  2. noun A quantity containing another quantity a number of times without a remainder.

Etymology [Cf. F. multiple, and E. quadruple, and multiply.]

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