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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

vertex

UK /ˈvɜː.tɛks/ · US /ˈvɝˌtɛks/ noun

Forms vertices vertexes vertice

  1. noun The highest point, top or apex of something. “The mountain’s vertex was covered in snow.”
  2. noun (anatomy) The highest surface on the skull; the crown of the head.
  3. noun The common point of the two rays that form an angle.
  4. noun The point at which an axis meets a curve or surface.
  5. noun (mathematics) A point on the curve with a local minimum or maximum of curvature.
  6. noun (graph theory) One of the elements of a graph joined or not by edges to other vertices.
  7. noun (computer graphics) A point in 3D space, usually given in terms of its Cartesian coordinates.
  8. noun (optics) The point where the surface of a lens crosses the optical axis.

Synonyms

acme apex peak top node

Antonyms

fundus

Etymology

Late Middle English, borrowed from Latin vertex (“whirl, eddy; top, crown, peak, summit”). Doublet of vortex.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A turning point; the principal or highest point; top; summit; crown; apex. Specifically: --(a) (Anat.)
  2. noun The top, or crown, of the head.

Etymology [L. vertex, -icis, a whirl, top of the head, top, summit, from vertere to turn. See Verse, and cf. Vortex.]

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

Sanskrit

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