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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collet

UK /ˈkɒlɪt/ · US /ˈkɑlɪt/ noun, proper noun

Also a form of collard

Forms collets Collett Collette

  1. noun A band, flange, ferrule, or collar, designed to grip and hold a tool or a workpiece under proper control, and usually to release it under control thereafter; such a collet usually is made of a hard, springy material, especially a metal. “That collet can handle up to 3/8-inch bits.”
  2. noun (jewelry) The rim (of a ring) within which a jewel is set. “There is an almost invisible collet that secures the stone to the ring.”
  3. noun (horticulture) In an embryonic plant, the transition zone between the root and the hypocotyl (not clearly distinguishable in most plants.) “Collar rot forms in the collet between the stem and the root.”
  4. proper noun A surname originating as a patronymic.

Synonyms

bezel ferrule collet chuck

Etymology

From Middle French collet. Doublet of collar.

Coll + -et. From a medieval diminutive of Coll, from the given name Nicholas.

Webster’s 1913

  1. An inferior church servant. [Obs.] See Acolyte.
  2. noun A small collar or neckband. Foxe.
  3. noun A small metal ring; a small collar fastened on an arbor; as, the collet on the balance arbor of a watch; a small socket on a stem, for holding a drill.

Etymology [Corrupted fr. acolyte.]

Etymology [F. collet, dim. fr. L. collum neck. See Collar.]

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