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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bolt

UK /bɒlt/ · US /boʊlt/ noun, verb, adverb, proper noun

Forms bolts bolting bolted

  1. noun A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw.
  2. noun A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
  3. noun A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open.
  4. noun (military, mechanical engineering) A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
  5. noun An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
  6. noun A stalk or scape (of garlic, onion, etc).
  7. noun A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
  8. noun (nautical) The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.
  9. verb (transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt. “Bolt the vice to the bench.”
  10. verb (transitive, figurative) To affix in a crude or unnatural manner.
  11. verb (transitive) To secure a bolt or bolts; to lock using a bolt. “Bolt the door.”
  12. verb (intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate away suddenly. “Seeing the snake, the horse bolted.”
  13. verb (intransitive) To escape.
  14. verb (transitive) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted). “to bolt a rabbit”
  15. verb To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
  16. verb (intransitive, botany, of lettuce, spinach, garlic, onion, etc) To produce flower stalks and flowers or seeds quickly or prematurely; to form a bolt (stalk or scape); to go to seed. “Lettuce and spinach will bolt as the weather warms up.”
  17. adverb Suddenly; straight; unbendingly. “The soldiers stood bolt upright for inspection.”
  18. verb To sift, especially through a cloth.
  19. verb To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour. “Graham flour is unbolted flour; in contrast, some other flours have been bolted.”
  20. verb To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.

Synonyms

flash thunderbolt bolt of lightning deadbolt dash abscond absquatulate decamp run off go off make off run out bolt out beetle off gobble rigidly stiffly bang slap slapdash smack

Antonyms

unbolt

Etymology

From Middle English bolt, from Old English bolt, from Proto-West Germanic *bolt, from Proto-Germanic *bultaz, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeld- (“to knock, strike”). Compare Lithuanian beldu (“I knock”), baldas (“pole for striking”). Akin to Dutch and West Frisian bout, German Bolz or Bolzen, Danish bolt, Swedish bult, Icelandic bolti.
The association of thunder and lightning with 'bolts' is found back into prehistory in many cultures, at least in Eurasia. It comes from the long-standing widespread belief that lightning was caused by bolts, darts, or stones hurtling down from the sky to the earth. This belief was still regarded as commonplace until at least 1929.

From Middle English bulten, from Anglo-Norman buleter, Old French bulter (modern French bluter), from a Germanic source originally meaning "bag, pouch" cognate with Middle High German biuteln (“to sift”), from Proto-Germanic *buzdô (“beetle, grub, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰūs- (“to move quickly”). Cognate with Dutch buidel.

* As an English surname, from the noun bolt, for a maker of bolts, or a nickname for a short and heavy person.
* Also as an English surname, variant of Bold.
* As a Dutch, north/Low German and Danish surname, from the old Germanic name Baldo, derived from the adjective bold and related to the above. Compare Boldt.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart.
  2. noun Lightning; a thunderbolt.
  3. verb To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.
  4. verb To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out. I hate when Vice can bolt her arguments. Milton.

Etymology [AS. bolt; akin to Icel. bolti, Dan. bolt, D. bout, OHG. bolz, G. bolz, bolzen; of uncertain origin.]

Etymology [From Bolt, v. i.]

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

Sanskrit

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