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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perspective

/pɚˈspɛk.tɪv/ noun, adjective

Forms perspectives

  1. noun A view, vista or outlook.
  2. noun The appearance of depth in objects, especially as perceived using binocular vision.
  3. noun The technique of representing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface.
  4. noun (dated) An artwork that represents three-dimensional objects in this way.
  5. noun (figuratively) The choice of a single angle or point of view from which to sense, categorize, measure or codify experience.
  6. noun The ability to consider things in such relative perspective.
  7. noun A perspective glass.
  8. noun A sound recording technique to adjust and integrate sound sources seemingly naturally.
  9. adjective Of, in or relating to perspective. “a perspective drawing”
  10. adjective (obsolete) Providing visual aid; of or relating to the science of vision; optical.

Synonyms

position view linear perspective

Etymology

From Middle English perspective, perspectif, attested since 1381, from Old French or Middle French, from the first word of the Medieval Latin perspectiva ars (“science of optics”), the feminine of Latin perspectivus (“of sight, optical”), from perspectus, the past participle of perspicere (“to inspect, look through”), itself from per- (“through”) + specere (“to look at”); the noun sense was influenced or mediated by Italian prospettiva, from prospetto (“prospect”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to the science of vision; optical. [Obs.] Bacon.
  2. adjective Pertaining to the art, or in accordance with the laws, of perspective. Perspective plane, the plane or surface on which the objects are delineated, or the picture drawn; the plane of projection; --distinguished from the ground plane, which is that on which the objects are represented as standing. When this plane is oblique to the principal face of the object, the perspective is called oblique perspective; when parallel to that face, parallel perspective.
  3. noun A glass through which objects are viewed. [Obs.] "Not a perspective, but a mirror." Sir T. Browne.
  4. noun That which is seen through an opening; a view; a vista. "The perspective of life." Goldsmith.

Etymology [L. perspicere, perspectum, to look through; per + spicere, specere, to look: cf. F. perspectif; or from E. perspective, n. See Spy, n.]

Etymology [F. perspective, fr. perspectif: cf. It. perspettiva. See Perspective, a.]

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