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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climb

/ˈklaɪ̯m/ verb, noun

Forms climbs climbing climbed clomb clumb climbest climbedst climbeth

  1. verb (intransitive) To traverse a slope or contour, either upwards (ascending) or downwards (descending).
  2. verb (intransitive) (literally or figuratively): To ascend; rise; to go up.
  3. verb To ascend in a non-physical or figurative sense. “The hit song has climbed to the number one spot.”
  4. verb (figurative) To move to a higher position on a chart or hierarchy. “Prices climbed steeply.”
  5. verb (transitive) To mount; to move upwards on. “climbing a tree”
  6. verb (transitive) To scale; to get to the top of something.
  7. verb (intransitive) To enter, mount or otherwise assume a position in or on a conveyance. “He climbed into the passenger-seat of the car.”
  8. verb (transitive) To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet. “My legs were so stiff and my arms so sore that this morning I could barely climb out of bed.”
  9. noun An act of climbing.
  10. noun The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.
  11. noun An effort of moving upward.

Synonyms

scale ascent acclivity rise raise upgrade climbing mounting mount climb up go up wax

Etymology

From Middle English climben, clymben, from Old English climban (“to climb”), from Proto-West Germanic *klimban, from Proto-Germanic *klimbaną (“to climb, go up by clinging”), believed to be a nasalised variant of Proto-Germanic *klibaną, *klibāną (“to stick, cleave”), from Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to stick”). Cognate with West Frisian klimme (“to climb”), Dutch klimmen (“to climb”), German klimmen (“to climb”), Old Norse klembra (“to squeeze”), Icelandic klifra (“to climb”). Related to clamber. See also clay, glue.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.
  2. verb To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point.
  3. verb To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount.
  4. noun The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing. Warburton.

Etymology [AS. climban; akin to OHG. chlimban, G. & D. klimmen, Icel. klifa, and E. cleave to adhere.]

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

Sanskrit

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