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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slant

UK /ˈslɑːnt/ · US /ˈslænt/ noun, verb, adjective

Forms slants slanting slanted

  1. noun A slope; an incline, inclination. “The house was built on a bit of a slant and was never quite level.”
  2. noun A sloped surface or line.
  3. noun (mining) A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam.
  4. noun (typography) Synonym of slash ⟨ / ⟩, particularly in its use to set off pronunciations from other text.
  5. noun An oblique movement or course.
  6. noun (biology) A sloping surface in a culture medium.
  7. noun A pan with a sloped bottom used for holding paintbrushes.
  8. noun A depression on a palette with a sloping bottom for holding and mixing watercolours.
  9. verb (ambitransitive) To lean, tilt or incline. “If you slant the track a little more, the marble will roll down it faster.”
  10. verb (transitive) To bias or skew. “a magazine slanted toward the youth market”
  11. verb (Scotland, intransitive) To lie or exaggerate.
  12. adjective Sloping; oblique; slanted.

Synonyms

slash bias pitch rake angle weight lean tilt tip cant cant over

Etymology

Late Middle English, from a variant of the earlier form dialectal slent, from Old Norse or another North Germanic source, cognate with Old Norse slent, Swedish slinta (“to slip”), Norwegian slenta (“to fall on the side”), from Proto-Germanic *slintaną. Probably influenced by aslant.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie obliquely; to slope.
  2. verb To turn from a direct line; to give an oblique or sloping direction to; as, to slant a line.
  3. noun A slanting direction or plane; a slope; as, it lies on a slant.
  4. noun An oblique reflection or gibe; a sarcastic remark. Slant or wind, a local variation of the wind from its general direction.

Etymology [OE. slenten to slope, slide; cf. Sw. slinta to slide.]

Etymology [Cf. dial. Sw. slant. See Slant, v. i.]

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