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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

round

/ˈɹaʊ̯nd/ adjective, noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of around

Forms round round rounder roundest rounds rounding rounded around ron

  1. adjective Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction. “We sat at a round table to make conversation easier.”
  2. adjective Spherical; shaped like a ball; having a circular cross-section in more than one direction. “The ancient Egyptian demonstrated that the Earth is round, not flat.”
  3. adjective Loosely or approximately circular.
  4. adjective Plump. “He was tall and thin but his wife was short and round.”
  5. adjective Complete, whole, not lacking. “The baker sold us a round dozen.”
  6. adjective (of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero. “One hundred is a nice round number.”
  7. adjective (phonetics) Pronounced with the lips drawn together; rounded.
  8. adjective Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing words.
  9. noun A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
  10. noun A circular or repetitious route. “The prison guards have started their nightly rounds.”
  11. noun A general outburst from a group of people at an event. “The candidate got a round of applause after every sentence or two.”
  12. noun (countable, music) A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
  13. noun A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group. “They brought us a round of drinks about every thirty minutes.”
  14. noun A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
  15. noun (UK) One slice of bread. “For breakfast I had two rounds of toast and a mug of tea.”
  16. noun One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
  17. verb (transitive) To shape something into a curve. “The carpenter rounded the edges of the table.”
  18. verb (intransitive) To become shaped into a curve.
  19. verb (with "out") To finish; to complete; to fill out; see also round out. “She rounded out her education with only a single mathematics class.”
  20. verb (transitive, intransitive) To approximate (a number, especially a decimal number) by the closest whole number, or some other close number, especially a whole number of hundreds, thousands, etc.; see also round down, round up. “The exact amount was $101.65, but we rounded it to $100.”

Synonyms

spherical circular cylindrical discoid plump rotund rounded complete entire whole canon rump routine surround unit of ammunition one shot cycle rhythm beat round of golf daily round turn bout round of drinks troll rung stave circle round out round off

Antonyms

flat fillet square

Etymology

From Middle English round, rounde, from Old Northern French roünt, rund, Old French ront, runt, reont ( > French rond), from both Late Latin retundus and the original Latin rotundus. The noun developed partly from the adjective and partly from the corresponding French noun rond. Doublet of rotund.

From Middle English rounen, from Old English rūnian (“to whisper, talk low, talk secrets, consipre, talk secretly”), from Proto-Germanic *rūnōną (“to talk secrets, whisper, decide”), *raunijaną (“to investigate, examine, prove”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)rewə-, *(e)rwō- (“to trace, find out, look out”). Cognate with Scots roun (“to converse with in whispers, speak privately”), Middle Low German rūnen (“to whisper”), Middle Dutch ruinen (“to whisper”), German raunen (“to whisper, murmur”), Old English rūn (“whisper, secret, mystery”), Swedish röna (“to meet with, experience”). More at rune.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To whisper. [obs.] Shak. Holland.
  2. adjective Having every portion of the surface or of the circumference equally distant from the center; spherical; circular; having a form approaching a spherical or a circular shape; orbicular; globular; as, a round ball. "The big, round tears." Shak.
  3. adjective Having the form of a cylinder; cylindrical; as, the barrel of a musket is round.
  4. noun Anything round, as a circle, round" [the crown]. Shak.

Etymology [From Roun.]

Etymology [OF. roond, roont, reond, F. rond, fr. L. rotundus, fr. rota wheel. See Rotary, and cf. Rotund, roundel, Rundlet.]

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

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