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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top

UK /tɒp/ · US /tɑp/ noun, verb, adjective, adverb, interjection, proper noun

Forms tops topping topped

  1. noun The highest or uppermost part of something. “His kite got caught at the top of the tree.”
  2. noun (irrespective of present orientation) The part of something that is usually highest or uppermost. “We flipped the machine onto its top.”
  3. noun The uppermost part of a page, picture, viewing screen, etc. “Further weather information can be found at the top of your television screen.”
  4. noun A lid, cap, or cover of a container. “Put a top on the toothpaste tube or it will go bad.”
  5. noun A garment worn to cover the torso. “I bought this top as it matches my jeans.”
  6. noun A framework at the top of a ship's mast to which rigging is attached.
  7. noun (baseball) The first half of an inning, during which the home team fields and the visiting team bats.
  8. noun (archaic) The crown of the head, or the hair upon it; the head.
  9. verb To cover on the top or with a top. “I like my ice cream topped with chocolate sauce.”
  10. verb To exceed in height.
  11. verb To excel, to surpass, to beat, to exceed. “Titanic was the most successful film ever until it was topped by another Cameron film, Avatar.”
  12. verb To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of). “Celine Dion topped the UK music charts twice in the 1990s.”
  13. verb To cut or remove the top (as of a tree) “I don't want to be bald, so just top my hair.”
  14. verb (UK, Australia, slang, reflexive) To commit suicide. “Depression causes many people to top themselves.”
  15. verb (UK, Australia, slang, rare, chiefly archaic) To murder or execute.
  16. verb (BDSM) To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay. “I used to be a slave, but I ended up topping.”
  17. adjective Situated on the top of something.
  18. adjective (informal) Best; of the highest quality, fame or rank. “She's in the top dance school.”
  19. adjective (informal) Very good, of high quality, power, or rank. “He's a top lawyer.”
  20. adjective (transgender) Relating to the chest or breasts. “top surgery”

Synonyms

peak summit overside cap head coverlid dom dominant domme dominatrix pitcher brain dome mouth music neck Kirk beat better best exceed top side upper side upside crown crest tip top of the inning acme height elevation

Antonyms

bottom base underside foot side

Etymology

From Middle English top, toppe, from Old English topp (“top, highest part; summit; crest; tassel, tuft; (spinning) top, ball; a tuft or ball at the highest point of anything”), from Proto-West Germanic *topp, from Proto-Germanic *tuppaz (“braid, pigtail, end”), of unknown ultimate origin. Compare typologically Latin apex (<< Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“to join, attach, fasten, fit”)).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Top (“top”), Cimbrian sòpf (“braid”), Dutch top (“top, summit, peak”), German Topp (“top of a mast”), Zopf (“braid, pigtail, plait, top”), Luxembourgish Zapp (“plait, tress”), Vilamovian cöp (“braid, plait”), Yiddish צאָפּ (tsop, “braid”), Danish top (“top”), Icelandic toppur (“top”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish topp (“top, peak, summit, tip”), Italian zuffa (“brawl”).
The sense of a spinning toy is separated from this, obscurely related to Dutch top and dop in this sense, against Standard Dutch tol, and French toupie having this sense.

Borrowed from Dutch and German Top.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A child's toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made to spin on its point, usually by drawing off a string wound round its surface or stem, the motion being sometimes continued by means of a whip.
  2. noun A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudital grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting.
  3. noun The highest part of anything; the upper end, edge, or extremity; the upper side or surface; summit; apex; vertex; cover; lid; as, the top of a spire; the top of a house; the top of a mountain; the top of the ground.
  4. noun The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.

Etymology [CF. OD. dop, top, OHG., MNG., & dial. G. topf; perhaps akin to G. topf a pot.]

Etymology [AS. top; akin to OFries. top a tuft, D. top top, OHG. zopf end, tip, tuft of hair, G. zopf tuft of hair, pigtail, top of a tree, Icel. toppr a tuft of hair, crest, top, Dan. top, Sw. topp pinnacle, top; of uncertain origin. Cf. Tuft.]

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

Sanskrit

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