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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cork

UK /kɔːk/ · US /kɔɹk/ noun, verb, adjective, proper noun

Forms corks corking corked

  1. noun (botany, uncountable) The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.
  2. noun The phellem of the cork oak, used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
  3. noun A bottle stopper made from this or any other material. “Snobs feel it's hard to call it wine with a straight face when the cork is made of plastic.”
  4. noun An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
  5. noun The cork oak, Quercus suber.
  6. verb (transitive) To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
  7. verb (transitive) To blacken (as) with a burnt cork.
  8. verb To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.
  9. verb To fill with cork.
  10. verb (transitive, baseball) To tamper with (a bat) by drilling out part of the head and filling the cavity with cork or similar light, compressible material. “He corked his bat, which was discovered when it broke, causing a controversy.”
  11. verb (transitive, Australia) To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma. “The vicious tackle corked his leg.”
  12. verb (fishing) To position one's drift net just outside of another person's net, thereby intercepting and catching all the fish that would have gone into that person's net.
  13. verb (transitive) To block (a street) illegally, to allow a protest or other activity to take place without traffic.
  14. noun (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.
  15. verb (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) To perform such a maneuver.
  16. adjective (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) Having the property of a head over heels rotation.
  17. proper noun The principal city of County Cork, Ireland.
  18. proper noun A county in the Republic of Ireland (County Cork).

Synonyms

phellem bottle cork bob bobber bobfloat cork up

Antonyms

uncork

Etymology

From Middle English cork (“oak bark, cork”), from Middle Dutch curc (“cork (material or object)”), either from Spanish corcho (“cork (material or object)”) (also corcha or corche) or from Old Spanish alcorque (“cork sole”). Doublet of cortex.

From the traversal path resembling that of a corkscrew.

From Irish Corcaigh (“bog, marsh, swamp”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.
  2. noun A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork.
  3. verb To stop with a cork, as a bottle.
  4. verb To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork.

Etymology [Cf. G., Dan., & Sw. kork, D. kurk; all fr. Sp. corcho, fr. L. cortex, corticis, bark, rind. Cf. Cortex.]

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