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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closet

UK /ˈklɒzɪt/ · US /ˈklɑzɪt/ noun, adjective, verb

Forms closets closeting closeted

  1. noun A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies.
  2. noun (obsolete) Any private space, (particularly) bowers in the open air.
  3. noun (now rare) Any private or inner room, (particularly):
  4. noun (obsolete) A private room used by women to groom and dress themselves.
  5. noun (archaic) A private room used for prayer or other devotions.
  6. noun (figuratively, archaic) A place of (usually, fanciful) contemplation and theorizing.
  7. noun (archaic) The private residence or private council chamber of a monarch.
  8. noun (obsolete) A pew or side-chapel reserved for a monarch or other feudal lord.
  9. adjective (obsolete) Private.
  10. adjective Closeted, secret (especially with reference to gay people who are in the closet). “He's a closet case.”
  11. adjective Denoting anything kept a secret or private.
  12. verb (transitive) To shut away for private discussion. “The ambassador has been closeted with the prime minister all afternoon. We're all worried what will be announced when they exit.”
  13. verb (transitive) To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation.
  14. verb (transitive) To shut up in, or as in, a closet for concealment or confinement.

Synonyms

armchair bathroom cabinet cupboard water closet W.C. loo wardrobe press

Etymology

From Middle English closet, from Old French closet, from clos (“private space”) + -et (diminutive suffix), from Latin clausum. Equivalent to close + -et, but generally applied in French solely to small open-air enclosures.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A small room or apartment for retirement; a room for privacy.
  2. noun A small apartment, or recess in the side of a room, for household utensils, clothing, etc. Dryden. Closet sin, sin commited in privacy.
  3. verb To shut up in, or as in, a closet; to conceal. [R.]
  4. verb To make into a closet for a secret interview.

Etymology [OF. closet little inclosure, dim. of clos. See Close an inclosure.]

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

Sanskrit

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