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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reflect

/ɹɪˈflɛkt/ verb

Forms reflects reflecting reflected

  1. verb (transitive) To bend back (light, etc.) from a surface. “A mirror reflects the light that shines on it.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To be bent back (light, etc.) from a surface. “The moonlight reflected from the surface of water.”
  3. verb (transitive) To mirror, or show the image of something. “The shop window reflected his image as he walked past.”
  4. verb (intransitive) To be mirrored. “His image reflected from the shop window as he walked past.”
  5. verb (transitive) To agree with; to closely follow. “Entries in English dictionaries aim to reflect common usage.”
  6. verb (transitive) To give evidence of someone's or something's character etc. “The team's victory reflects the Captain's abilities.”
  7. verb (intransitive) To think seriously; to ponder or consider. “People do that sort of thing every day, without ever stopping to reflect on the consequences.”

Synonyms

chew over think over meditate ponder excogitate contemplate muse mull mull over ruminate speculate reverberate shine

Etymology

From Old French reflecter (“to bend back, turn back”), from Latin reflectō (“to reflect”), from re- (“again”) + flectō (“to bend, to curve”). Compare English reflex.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To bend back; to give a backwaas, a mirror reflects rays of light; polished metals reflect heat.
  2. verb To give back an image or likeness of; to mirror.
  3. To throw back light, heat, or the like; to return rays or beams.
  4. To be sent back; to rebound as from a surface; to revert; to return.

Etymology [L. reflectere, reflexum; pref. re- re- + flectere to bend or turn. See Flexible, and cf. Reflex, v.]

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

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