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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scant

/skænt/ adjective, verb, determiner, noun, adverb

Forms scanter scantest scants scanting scanted

  1. adjective Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager. “a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment”
  2. adjective Sparing; parsimonious; chary.
  3. adjective (cooking, of a measurement) Slightly diminished; just short of the amount described. “a scant cup of sugar”
  4. verb (transitive) To limit in amount or share; to stint. “to scant someone in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries”
  5. verb (intransitive) To fail, or become less; to scantle. “The wind scants.”
  6. determiner Very little, very few. “After his previous escapades, Mary had scant reason to believe John.”
  7. noun A small piece or quantity.
  8. noun (uncommon) Scarcity; lack.
  9. noun (masonry) A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level.
  10. noun (masonry) A sheet of stone.
  11. noun (wood) A slightly thinner measurement of a standard wood size.
  12. adverb (uncommon or dated) With difficulty; scarcely; hardly.

Synonyms

sparse spare geason little few slight skimp stint light short

Antonyms

ample plenty

Etymology

Adjective and determiner from Middle English scant, from Old Norse skamt, neuter of skammr (“short”), from Proto-Germanic *skammaz (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱem- (“mutilated, hornless”). Verb from Middle English scanten, from the adjective. Noun and adverb from Middle English scant, from the adjective.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; less than is wanted for the purpose; scanty; meager; not enough; as, a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment.
  2. adjective Sparing; parsimonious; chary.
  3. verb To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries.
  4. verb To cut short; to make small, narrow, or scanty; to curtail. "Scant not my cups." Shak.

Etymology [Icel. skamt, neuter of skamr, skammr, short; cf. skamta to dole out, to portion.]

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