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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vise

/vaɪs/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms vises vising vised viséing viséed vice

  1. noun (US) An instrument consisting of two jaws, closing by a screw, lever, cam, or the like, for holding work, as in filing.
  2. noun (figurative) A situation in which one's freedom of choice is constrained.
  3. noun (obsolete) A screw.
  4. noun (obsolete) A spiral staircase.
  5. verb To clamp with or as with a vise.
  6. noun (archaic) visa.
  7. verb (transitive, archaic) To examine and endorse (a passport, etc.); to visa.
  8. proper noun A surname.
  9. proper noun A municipality in the province of Liège, Wallonia, Belgium.

Synonyms

bench vise

Etymology

From Middle English vis, vys, vice (“screw”), from Anglo-Norman vyz, vice, from Old French vis (“screw”), from Latin vītis f (“vine”).
Probably akin to English withe.

Borrowed from French visé, past participle of viser (“to issue with a visa”).

English topographic surname, from Old French deviser (“to split, divide”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An instrument consisting of two jaws, closing by a screw, lever, cam, or the like, for holding work, as in filing. [Written also vice.]
  2. noun An indorsement made on a passport by the proper authorities of certain countries on the continent of Europe, denoting that it has been examined, and that the person who bears it is permitted to proceed on his journey; a visa.
  3. verb To examine and indorse, as a passport; to visa.

Etymology [F. vis a screw, winding stairs, OF. vis, viz, fr. L. vitis a vine; probably akin to E. withy.]

Etymology [F. visé, p. p. of viser to put a visa to, fr. L. visus seen, p. p. of videre to see.]

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