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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whisker

/ʍɪskə(ɹ)/ noun, proper noun

Forms whiskers

  1. noun That part of the beard which grows upon the sides of the face, usually of the male, or upon the chin, or upon both.
  2. noun A hair of the beard.
  3. noun One of the long, projecting hairs growing at the sides of the mouth of a cat, or other animal.
  4. noun (colloquial) The (very small) distance between two things. “It missed falling on your foot by a whisker.”
  5. noun (nautical) Spreaders from the bows to spread the bowsprit shrouds.
  6. noun (statistics) A graphic element that shows the maxima and minima in a box plot.
  7. noun One who, or that which, whisks, or moves with a quick, sweeping motion.
  8. noun (metallurgy) A small tendril that forms on metal.
  9. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

hair's-breadth hairsbreadth hair vibrissa sensory hair bewhisker

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English wisker, whisk (verb) + -er.

Variant of Wishart.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, whisks, or moves with a quick, sweeping motion.
  2. noun Formerly, the hair of the upper lip; a mustache; --usually in the plural.

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

Sanskrit

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