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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bronze

UK /bɹɒnz/ · US /bɹɑnz/ noun, adjective, verb, proper noun

Forms bronzes bronzing bronzed

  1. noun (uncountable) A naturally occurring or man-made alloy of copper, usually in combination with tin, but also with one or more other metals.
  2. noun (countable and uncountable) A reddish-brown colour, the colour of bronze.
  3. noun (countable) A work of art made of bronze, especially a sculpture.
  4. noun A bronze medal; third place. “She wanted to win the tournament, but had to settle for the bronze after being beaten in the semi-finals.”
  5. noun Boldness; impudence.
  6. adjective Made of bronze metal.
  7. adjective Having a reddish-brown colour.
  8. adjective (of the skin) Tanned; darkened as a result of exposure to the sun.
  9. verb (transitive) To plate with bronze. “My mother bronzed my first pair of baby shoes.”
  10. verb (transitive) To color bronze; (of the sun) to tan.
  11. verb (intransitive, of the skin) To change to a bronze or tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
  12. verb (transitive) To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.
  13. verb (intransitive) To finish in third place; to win a bronze medal.
  14. proper noun A surname.
  15. noun A breed of domestic turkey whose plumage has an iridescent bronze-like sheen.

Synonyms

brass bronzen tan bronzy

Etymology

From French bronze (1511); from Italian bronzo (13th c.), of uncertain origin (q.v.). First use appears c. 1721 in the writings of Matthew Prior (for which, see citation below).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An alloy of copper and tin, to which small proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. It is hard and sonorous, and is used for statues, bells, cannon, etc., the proportions of the ingredients being varied to suit the particular purposes. The varieties containing the higher proportions of tin are brittle, as in bell metal and speculum metal.
  2. noun A statue, bust, etc., cast in bronze.
  3. verb To give an appearance of bronze to, by a coating of bronze powder, or by other means; to make of the color of bronze; as, to bronze plaster casts; to bronze coins or medals.
  4. verb To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.

Etymology [F. bronze, fr. It. bronzo brown, fr. OHG. br, G. braun. See Brown, a.]

Etymology [Cf. F. bronzer. See Bronze, n.]

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