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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clinch

/klɪnt͡ʃ/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms clinches clinching clinched

  1. verb To bend and hammer the point of (a nail) so it cannot be removed.
  2. verb To clasp; to interlock.
  3. verb To fasten securely or permanently.
  4. verb To make certain; to finalize. “I already planned to buy the car, but the color was what really clinched it for me.”
  5. verb To hold firmly; to clench
  6. verb To set closely together; to close tightly. “to clinch the teeth or the fist”
  7. verb To hold a boxing opponent with one or both arms so as to avoid being hit while resting momentarily
  8. verb To secure a spot (e.g., at the divisional championship) before the end of regular season play by having an insurmountable lead.
  9. noun Any of several fastenings.
  10. noun The act of bending and hammering the point of a nail so it cannot be removed.
  11. noun The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast. “to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon”
  12. noun (obsolete) A pun.
  13. noun (nautical) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.
  14. noun A passionate embrace.
  15. noun (wrestling, combat sports) The act of one or both fighters holding onto the other to prevent being hit or engage in standup grappling.
  16. noun (slang, archaic) A prison sentence.
  17. proper noun A surname.
  18. proper noun A river in Virginia and Tennessee, United States, a tributary of the Tennessee River, named after an 18th century explorer.

Synonyms

clasp grasp grip beclasp begrasp begrip belock clench cling clutch enclasp fang fondle glaum grab grabble hang on hold on hold tight hold clamp hug squeeze

Etymology

16th-century alteration of clench.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.
  2. verb To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first. Swift.
  3. verb To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.
  4. noun The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip; a grasp; a clamp; a holdfast; as, to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon; to secure anything by a clinch.

Etymology [OE. clenchen, prop. causative of clink to cause to clink, to strike; cf. D. klinken to tinkle, rivet. See Clink.]

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