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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chock

UK /tʃɒk/ · US /t͡ʃɑk/ noun, verb, adverb, interjection, proper noun

Also a form of choke chuck

Forms chocks chocking chocked

  1. noun Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling.
  2. noun (nautical) Any fitting or fixture used to restrict movement, especially movement of a line; traditionally was a fixture near a bulwark with two horns pointing towards each other, with a gap between where the line can be inserted.
  3. verb (transitive) To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.
  4. verb (intransitive, obsolete) To fill up, as a cavity.
  5. verb (nautical) To insert a line in a chock.
  6. adverb (nautical) Entirely; quite.
  7. noun (obsolete) An encounter.
  8. verb (obsolete) To encounter.
  9. interjection Representing a dull sound.
  10. verb To make a dull sound.
  11. noun (historical, US) An illicit, fermented alcoholic beverage brewed on-site.
  12. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

wedge chock-a-block

Etymology

From Middle English *chokke (possibly attested in Middle English chokkefull), from Anglo-Norman choque (compare modern Norman chouque), from an Old Northern French variant of Old French çouche, çouche (“block, log”), of Celtic origin, from Gaulish *tsukka (compare Breton soc’h (“thick”), Old Irish tócht (“part, piece”), itself a metathetic borrowing of Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“stick, stock, piece of wood”). Doublet of stock.

French choquer. Compare shock (transitive verb).

Onomatopoeic.

* As an English surname, variant of Shock.
* As a German surname, Americanized from Zschoche, Zschocke, from the placename Zsochochau in Saxony or Tschocke in Silesia, of Slavic origin.
* As a Slovene surname, Americanized from Čok, from obsolete čok (“tree stump”).
* As a Chinese surname, Romanizaed from 卓 (zhuó), see Zhuo.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.
  2. verb To fill up, as a cavity. "The woodwork . . . exactly chocketh into joints." Fuller.
  3. noun A wedge, or block made to fit in any space which it is desired to fill, esp. something to steady a cask or other body, or prevent it from moving, by fitting into the space around or beneath it.
  4. noun A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc.

Etymology [F. choquer. Cf. Shock, v. t.]

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