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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point

/pɔɪnt/ noun, interjection, verb, proper noun

Forms points pointing pointed the Point p'int

  1. noun Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark. “The stars showed as tiny points of yellow light.”
  2. noun A full stop or other terminal punctuation mark.
  3. noun (mathematics) A decimal point (now especially when reading decimal fractions aloud). “10.5 is "ten point five", or ten and a half.”
  4. noun Each of the marks or strokes written above letters, especially in Semitic languages, to indicate vowels, stress etc.
  5. noun (music) A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time. In ancient music, it distinguished or characterized certain tones or styles (points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.). In modern music, it is placed on the right of a note to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half.
  6. noun (by extension) A note; a tune.
  7. noun (mathematics, sciences) A zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction.
  8. noun An individual element in a larger whole; a particular detail, thought, or quality. “The Congress debated the finer points of the bill.”
  9. interjection Point taken; understood; got it.
  10. verb (intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it. “It's rude to point at other people.”
  11. verb (intransitive) To draw attention to something or indicate a direction. “The arrow of a compass points north”
  12. verb (intransitive) To face in a particular direction.
  13. verb (transitive, sometimes figurative) To direct toward an object; to aim. “to point a gun at a wolf, or a cannon at a fort”
  14. verb To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end. “to point a dart, a pencil, or (figuratively) a moral”
  15. verb (intransitive) To indicate a probability of something.
  16. verb (ambitransitive, masonry) To repair mortar.
  17. verb (transitive, masonry) To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.
  18. verb (obsolete) To appoint.
  19. proper noun (informal, military) USMA (United States Military Academy) in West Point, New York.
  20. proper noun A township in Posey County, Indiana, United States, so-named for being the southernmost and westernmost point in the state.

Synonyms

moment ord time meaning meaningfulness use end tip location place position spot decimal point opinion point of view view viewpoint mark detail item degree level stage point in time peak dot compass point period full stop stop

Antonyms

pointlessness uselessness purposelessness meaninglessness

Etymology

From Middle English poynt, from Old French point m (“dot; minute amount”), from Latin pūnctum (“a hole punched in; a point, puncture”), substantive use of pūnctus m, perfect passive participle of pungō (“to prick, punch”); alternatively, from Old French pointe f (“sharp tip”), from Latin pūncta f (past participle), all from Proto-Italic *pungō (“to sting, prick”).
Mostly displaced native Middle English ord (“point”), from Old English ord (“point”). Doublet of pointe, ponto, puncto, punctum, punt, and punto.

From Middle English pointen, poynten, from Old French pointier, pointer, poynter, from point from Latin pūnctum.

From Middle English pointen, poynten, by apheresis of apointen, appointen, appoynten. See appoint.

Short for West Point.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To appoint. [Obs.] Spenser.
  2. noun That which pricks or pierces; the sharp end of anything, esp. the sharp end of a piercing instrument, as a needle or a pin.
  3. noun An instrument which pricks or pierces, as a sort of needle used by engravers, etchers, lace workers, and others; also, a pointed cutting tool, as a stone cutter's point; --called also pointer.
  4. verb To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end; as, to point a dart, or a pencil. Used also figuratively; as, to point a moral.

Etymology [F. point, and probably also pointe, L. punctum, puncta, fr. pungere, punctum, to prick. See Pungent, and cf. Puncto, Puncture.]

Etymology [Cf. F. pointer. See Point, n.]

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

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