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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coil

/kɔɪl/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms coils coiling coiled

  1. noun Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral. “the sinuous coils of a snake”
  2. noun (gynaecology, colloquial) Any intrauterine device for contraception (originally coil-shaped).
  3. noun (electronics) A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
  4. noun A cylinder of clay.
  5. noun (figurative) Entanglement; perplexity.
  6. verb To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece. “A simple transformer can be made by coiling two pieces of insulated copper wire around an iron heart.”
  7. verb To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center. “The sailor coiled the free end of the hawser on the pier.”
  8. verb To wind cylindrically or spirally. “to coil a rope when not in use”
  9. verb To build a pot (etc) with clay coils.
  10. verb (obsolete, rare) To encircle and hold with, or as if with, coils.
  11. noun (now obsolete except in phrases) A noise, tumult, bustle, or turmoil.
  12. noun (informal, slang) A wad of cash.
  13. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

inductor spire spiral volute whorl helix roll curl curlicue ringlet gyre scroll gyrate handbuild hand-build loop

Antonyms

uncoil

Etymology

From Middle English coilen, from Old French coillir, cuillir (“to gather, pluck, pick, cull”) (modern French cueillir), from Latin colligō (“to gather together”), past participle collectus, from com- (“together”) + legō (“to gather”); compare legend. Doublet of cull.

Unknown.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing.
  2. verb To encircle and hold with, or as with, coils. [Obs. or R.] T. Edwards.
  3. verb To wind itself cylindrically or spirally; to form a coil; to wind; --often with about or around.
  4. noun A ring, series of rings, or spiral, into which a rope, or other like thing, is wound.

Etymology [OF. coillir, F. cueillir, to collect, gather together, L. coligere; col- + legere to gather. See Legend, and cf. Cull, v. t., Collect.]

Etymology [Of Celtic origin; cf. Gael. goil fume, rage.]

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

Sanskrit

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