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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clearance

UK /ˈklɪə̯.ɹəns/ · US /ˈklɪɚ.əns/ noun

Forms clearances

  1. noun The act of clearing or something (such as a space) cleared.
  2. noun The distance between two moving objects, especially between parts of a machine
  3. noun The height or width of a tunnel, bridge or other passage, or the distance between a vehicle and the walls or roof of such passage; a gap, headroom. “Clearance on these freeway overpasses is limited, so big trucks must detour.”
  4. noun A permission for a vehicle to proceed, or for a person to travel. “The plane got clearance from air traffic control, and we were off.”
  5. noun A permission to have access to sensitive or secret documents or other information.
  6. noun A permission to use something, usually intellectual property, that is legally, but not otherwise, protected.
  7. noun (retail) A sale of merchandise, especially at significantly reduced prices, usually in order to make room for new merchandise or updated versions of the same merchandise; sometimes as a closeout.
  8. noun (banking, finance) The settlement of transactions involving securities or means of payment such as checks by means of a clearing house.

Synonyms

clearing headroom headway

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of clearing; as, to make a through clearance.
  2. noun A certificate that a ship or vessel has been cleared at the customhouse; permission to sail.

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

Sanskrit

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