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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cascade

/kæsˈkeɪd/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms cascades cascading cascaded

  1. noun A waterfall or series of small waterfalls.
  2. noun (figuratively) A stream or sequence of a thing or things occurring as if falling like a cascade. “The bride carried a cascade of roses and baby's breath.”
  3. noun A series of electrical (or other types of) components, the output of any one being connected to the input of the next.
  4. noun (juggling) A pattern typically performed with an odd number of props, where each prop is caught by the opposite hand.
  5. noun (Internet) A sequence of absurd short messages posted to a newsgroup by different authors, each one responding to the most recent message and quoting the entire sequence to that point (with ever-increasing indentation).
  6. noun A hairpiece for women consisting of curled locks or a bun attached to a firm base, used to create the illusion of fuller hair.
  7. noun (chemistry) A series of reactions in which the product of one becomes a reactant in the next
  8. verb (intransitive) To fall as a waterfall or series of small waterfalls.
  9. verb (transitive) To arrange in a stepped series like a waterfall.
  10. verb (intransitive) To occur as a causal sequence.
  11. verb (transitive) To pass (something) down through a chain or system in a flow or series of movements.
  12. verb (archaic, slang) To vomit.
  13. proper noun An unincorporated community in Plumas County, California.
  14. proper noun An unincorporated community in Cascade-Chipita Park census-designated place, El Paso County, Colorado.
  15. proper noun A small city, the county seat of Valley County, Idaho.
  16. proper noun A city in Dubuque County and Jones County, Iowa.
  17. proper noun A township in Kent County, Michigan.
  18. proper noun A township in Olmsted County, Minnesota.
  19. proper noun An unincorporated community in Wayne County, Missouri.
  20. proper noun A town in Cascade County, Montana.

Synonyms

shower cascade down

Etymology

From French cascade, from Italian cascata, from cascare (“to fall”), from Vulgar Latin *cāsicāre, derived from Latin cadere, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂d-.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract.
  2. verb To fall in a cascade. Lowell.
  3. verb To vomit. [Slang] Smollett.

Etymology [F. cascade, fr. It. cascata, fr. cascare to ball.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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