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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phase

/feɪz/ noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of faze

Forms phases phasing phased

  1. noun A distinguishable part of a sequence or cycle occurring over time.
  2. noun That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same object.
  3. noun Any appearance or aspect of an object of mental apprehension or view. “The problem has many phases.”
  4. noun (astronomy) A particular appearance or state in a regularly recurring cycle of changes with respect to quantity of illumination or form, or the absence, of a body's illuminated disk. Illustrated in Wikipedia's article Lunar phase. “the phases of the moon”
  5. noun (physics) Any one point or portion in a recurring series of changes, as in the changes of motion of one of the particles constituting a wave or vibration; one portion of a series of such changes, in distinction from a contrasted portion, as the portion on one side of a position of equilibrium, in contrast with that on the opposite side.
  6. noun (chemistry) A component in a material system that is distinguished by chemical composition and/or physical state (solid, liquid or gas) and/or crystal structure. It is delineated from an adjoining phase by an abrupt change in one or more of those conditions.
  7. noun (zoology) In certain organisms, one of two or more colour variations characteristic of the species, but independent of the ordinary seasonal and sexual differences, and often also of age.
  8. noun (rugby union) The period of play between consecutive breakdowns.
  9. verb (with in or out) To begin—if construed with "in"—or to discontinue—if construed with out—(doing) something over a period of time (i.e. in phases). “The use of the obsolete machines was gradually phased out as the new models were phased in.”
  10. verb (genetics, informal, transitive) To determine haplotypes in (data) when genotypes are known.
  11. verb To pass into or through a solid object.
  12. verb (science fiction) To use a phaser.
  13. proper noun (obsolete) Passover

Synonyms

argument line conductor stage form phase angle

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin phasis, borrowed from Ancient Greek φάσις (phásis, “appearance”), from φᾰ(ν)- (phă(n)-, root of φαίνω (phaínō, “to bring to light; to appear”)) + -σῐς (-sĭs).
Compare phantasm and see face.

From Latin phase (“passover”), Phasa, from Hebrew פָּסַח (pésach).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same object.
  2. noun Any appearance or aspect of an object of mental apprehension or view; as, the problem has many phases.

Etymology [NL. phasis, Gr. phase. See Phenomenon, Phantom, and Emphasis.]

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