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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browse

/bɹaʊz/ verb, noun

Forms browses browsing browsed

  1. verb To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand. “I'm just browsing around.”
  2. verb To move about while sampling, such as with food or products on display.
  3. verb (transitive, computing) To navigate through hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser.
  4. verb (intransitive, of an animal) To move about while eating parts of plants, especially plants other than pasture, such as shrubs or trees.
  5. verb (archaic) To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze.
  6. noun (uncountable) Young shoots and twigs.
  7. noun (uncountable) Fodder for cattle and other animals.
  8. noun (countable) The act of browsing through something. “I had a browse in the old bookshop.”
  9. noun (countable) That which one browses through; something to read.
  10. noun (Cornwall, fishing, uncountable) Bruised fish used as bait.

Synonyms

browsing shop crop graze range pasture surf

Etymology

From Middle English browsen, from Old French brouster, broster (“to nibble off buds, sprouts, and bark; browse”), from brost (“a sprout, shoot, bud”), from a Germanic source, perhaps Frankish *brust (“shoot, bud”), from Proto-Germanic *brustiz (“bud, shoot”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to swell, sprout”). Cognate with Bavarian Bross, Brosst (“a bud”), Old Saxon brustian (“to sprout”). Doublet of brut, breast, and brush.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The tender branches or twigs of trees and shrubs, fit for the food of cattle and other animals; green food. Spenser.
  2. verb To eat or nibble off, as the tender branches of trees, shrubs, etc.; --said of cattle, sheep, deer, and some other animals.
  3. verb To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze.
  4. verb To feed on the tender branches or shoots of shrubs or trees, as do cattle, sheep, and deer.

Etymology [OF. brost, broust, sprout, shoot, F. brout browse, browsewood, prob. fr. OHG. burst, G. borste, bristle; cf. also Armor. brousta to browse. See Bristle, n., Brush, n.]

Etymology [For broust, OF. brouster, bruster, F. brouter. See Browse, n., and cf. Brut.]

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