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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

crane

/kɹeɪn/ noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of cran

Forms cranes craning craned

  1. noun Any bird of the family Gruidae, large birds with long legs and a long neck which is extended during flight.
  2. noun (US dialectal) Ardea herodias, the great blue heron.
  3. noun A mechanical lifting machine or device, often used for lifting heavy loads for industrial or construction purposes.
  4. noun An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace for supporting kettles etc. over the fire.
  5. noun A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask.
  6. noun (nautical) A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc.; generally used in pairs.
  7. verb (ambitransitive) To extend (one's neck).
  8. verb (transitive) To raise or lower with, or as if with, a crane.
  9. verb (intransitive) To pull up before a jump.
  10. noun (obsolete) The cranium.
  11. proper noun (countable) A surname.
  12. proper noun A minor river in Dorset, England, which becomes the Moors River near Verwood; the name is a back-formation from Cranborne.
  13. proper noun A minor river in Greater London, England, which joins the Thames between St Margarets and Isleworth.
  14. proper noun A town in Perry Township, Martin County, Indiana.
  15. proper noun A town in Stone County, Missouri.
  16. proper noun A census-designated place in Richland County, Montana.
  17. proper noun A census-designated place in Harney County, Oregon.
  18. proper noun A city, the county seat of Crane County, Texas.

Synonyms

Stephen Crane Hart Crane Harold Hart Crane Grus stretch out

Etymology

From Middle English crane, from Old English cran (“crane”), from Proto-West Germanic *kran, *kranō, from Proto-Germanic *kranô (“crane”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- (“to cry hoarsely”).
Cognate with Scots cran (“crane”), Dutch kraan (“crane”), German Low German Kroon (“crane”), German Kran (“crane”). The mechanical devices are named from their likeness to the bird.

From Middle English crane, cranee, from Old French cran, from Medieval Latin crānium.

* As an English surname, from the noun crane.
* As a Dutch surname, spelling variant of Krane.
* As a German surname, adaptation of Krahn and Krahnich.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A measure for fresh herrings, --as many as will fill a barrel.
  2. noun A wading bird of the genus Grus, and allied genera, of various species, having a long, straight bill, and long legs and neck.
  3. noun A machine for raising and lowering heavy weights, and, while holding them suspended, transporting them through a limited lateral distance. In one form it consists of a projecting arm or jib of timber or iron, a rotating post or base, and the necessary tackle, windlass, etc.; --so called from a fancied similarity between its arm and the neck of a crane See Illust. Of Derrick.
  4. verb To cause to rise; to raise or lift, as by a crane; --with up. [R.]

Etymology [Scot., fr. Gael. crann.]

Etymology [AS. cran; akin to D. & LG. craan, G. kranich, krahn (this in sense 2), Gr. grus, W. & Armor. garan, OSlav. zerav, Lith. gerve, Icel. trani, Sw. trana, Dan. trane. Geranium.]

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

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