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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stereotype

UK /ˈstɛ.ɹi.əˌtaɪp/ · US /ˈstɛɹ.i.əˌtaɪp/ noun, verb, adjective

Forms stereotypes stereotyping stereotyped

  1. noun A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person or a group of people). “Not all Zumbetonians wear plimsolls. That's just a stereotype.”
  2. noun (psychology) A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.
  3. noun (printing) A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.
  4. noun (software engineering) An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with added specializations.
  5. verb (transitive) To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.
  6. verb (transitive, printing) To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of. “to stereotype the Bible”
  7. verb (transitive, printing) To print from a stereotype.
  8. verb (transitive, figurative) To make firm or permanent; to fix.
  9. adjective (literal) Of an edition: printed in stereotype.
  10. adjective (figurative, now somewhat rare) Synonym of stereotyped.

Synonyms

cliché stereotyped pigeonhole stamp

Etymology

Borrowed from French stéréotype (adjective), equivalent to stereo- + type. Printing sense is from 1817; the “conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image” sense is recorded from 1922 in Walter Lippmann’s book Public Opinion.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A plate forming an exact faximile of a page of type or of an engraving, used in printing books, etc.; specifically, a plate with type-metal face, used for printing.
  2. noun The art or process of making such plates, or of executing work by means of them. Stereotype block, a block, usually of wood, to which a stereotype plate is attached while being used in printing.
  3. verb To prepare for printing in stereotype; to make the stereotype plates of; as, to stereotype the Bible.
  4. verb Fig.: To make firm or permanent; to fix. Powerful causes tending to stereotype and aggravate the poverty of old conditions. Duke of Argyll (1887).

Etymology [Stereo- + -type: cf. F. stéréotype.]

Etymology [Cf. F. stéréotyper.]

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