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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coupling

/ˈkʌplɪŋ/ noun

Also a form of couple

Forms couplings

  1. noun The act of joining together to form a couple.
  2. noun A device that couples two things together.
  3. noun (software engineering) The degree of reliance between two or more software modules.
  4. noun (electronics) A connection between two electronic circuits such that a signal can pass between them.
  5. noun (physics) The property of physical systems that they are interacting with each other
  6. noun (sexuality) An act of sexual intercourse.
  7. noun A link between the performance of an action and the location where that action occurs or the method used to perform that action.

Synonyms

dependency aphrodisia carnal knowledge coitus coition commerce commixtion congress conjunction connection consummation conversation copulation intercourse intimacy intimate relations intromission joining lovemaking lustmaking yoke coupler mating pairing conjugation union sexual union

Etymology

From Middle English couplynge; equivalent to couple + -ing.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of bringing or coming together; connection; sexual union.
  2. noun A device or contrivance which serves to couple or connect adjacent parts or objects; as, a belt coupling, which connects the ends of a belt; a car coupling, which connects the cars in a train; a shaft coupling, which connects the ends of shafts. Box coupling, Chain coupling. See under Box, Chain.

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

Sanskrit

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