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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broach

UK /bɹəʊtʃ/ · US /bɹoʊt͡ʃ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms broaches broaching broached

  1. noun A series of chisel points mounted on one piece of steel. For example, the toothed stone chisel shown here.
  2. noun (masonry) A broad chisel for stone-cutting.
  3. noun A spit for cooking food.
  4. noun An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.
  5. noun (architecture, UK, dialect) A spire rising from a tower.
  6. noun A spit-like start on the head of a young stag.
  7. noun The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.
  8. noun The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.
  9. verb (transitive) To make a hole in, especially a cask of liquor, and put in a tap in order to draw the liquid.
  10. verb (transitive) To open, to make an opening into; to pierce. “French knights at Agincourt were unable to broach the English line.”
  11. verb (transitive, figuratively) To begin discussion about (something). “I broached the subject of contraceptives carefully when the teenager mentioned his promiscuity.”
  12. verb (intransitive) To be turned sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves. “The small boat broached and nearly sank, because of the large waves.”
  13. verb (transitive) To cause to turn sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves (usually followed by to; also figurative). “Each time we came around into the wind, the sea broached our bow.”
  14. verb (nautical, ambitransitive, of a submerged submarine, torpedo, or similar) To break the surface of the water. “Diving officer, broach the ship!”
  15. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

spring brooch breastpin initiate

Etymology

From Middle English broche, from Old French broche, from Vulgar Latin *brocca, originally a feminine form of Latin broccus, perhaps ultimately of Gaulish origin (see Scottish Gaelic bròg). Doublet of brochure.

From Gujarati ભરૂચ (bharūc).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A spit. [Obs.]
  2. noun An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers. [Prov. Eng.] Forby.
  3. verb To spit; to pierce as with a spit.
  4. verb To tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor. Hence: To let out; to shed, as blood.

Etymology [OE. broche, F. broche, fr. LL. brocca; prob. of Celtic origin; cf. W. proc thrust, stab, Gael. brog awl. Cf. Brooch.]

Etymology [F. brocher, fr. broche. See Broach, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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