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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uniform

UK /ˈjuːnɪfɔːm/ · US /ˈjunɪˌfɔɹm/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms uniforms uniforming uniformed

  1. adjective Unvarying; all the same.
  2. adjective Consistent; conforming to one standard.
  3. adjective (mathematics) with speed of convergence not depending on choice of function argument; as in uniform continuity, uniform convergence
  4. adjective (chemistry, of a polymer) Composed of a single macromolecular species.
  5. adjective (geometry) (of a polyhedron) That is isogonal and whose faces are regular polygons; (of an n-dimensional (n>3) polytope) that is isogonal and whose bounding (n-1)-dimensional facets are uniform polytopes.
  6. noun A distinctive outfit that serves to identify members of a group, company, prison inmates, etc.
  7. noun (law enforcement) A uniformed police officer (as opposed to a detective).
  8. noun (computer graphics) In OpenGL, a global shader variable whose value does not change between rendering calls, serving as a parameter.
  9. verb (transitive) To clothe in a uniform.

Synonyms

regular stable invariable of a piece consistent equable equal even even-keeled monotonous samely steady uncheckered unvaried unvarying homogeneous onefold uniformal unmixed compliant undifferentiated

Antonyms

diverse nonuniform omniform multiform

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French uniforme, from Latin uniformis.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having always the same form, manner, or degree; not varying or variable; unchanging; consistent; equable; homogenous; as, the dress of the Asiatics has been uniform from early ages; the temperature is uniform; a stratum of uniform clay. Whewell.
  2. adjective Of the same form with others; agreeing with each other; conforming to one rule or mode; consonant.
  3. noun A dress of a particular style or fashion worn by persons in the same service or order by means of which they have a distinctive appearance; as, the uniform of the artillery, of the police, of the Freemasons, etc. There are many things which, a soldier will do in his plain clothes which he scorns to do in his uniform. F. W. Robertson.
  4. verb To clothe with a uniform; as, to uniform a company of soldiers.

Etymology [L. uniformis; unus one + forma from: cf. F. uniforme.]

Etymology [F. uniforme. See Uniform, a.]

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “uniform” (best matches first).

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