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

curtain

UK /ˈkɜːtn̩/ · US /ˈkɜɹt(ə)n/ noun, verb

Forms curtains curtaining curtained

  1. noun (furniture, household, fabrics) A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light. “He drew the curtains at 11:00pm before falling asleep.”
  2. noun (furniture, theater, fabrics) A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
  3. noun (theater, by extension) The beginning of a show; the moment the curtain rises. “He took so long to shave his head that we arrived 45 minutes after curtain and were denied late entry.”
  4. noun (fortifications) The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.
  5. noun (euphemistic, sometimes in the plural) Death, final curtain.
  6. noun (architecture) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
  7. noun (obsolete, derogatory) A flag; an ensign.
  8. noun The uninterrupted stream of fluid that falls onto a moving substrate in the process of curtain coating.
  9. verb (transitive) To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.
  10. verb (transitive, figuratively) To hide, cover or separate as if by a curtain.

Synonyms

curtains becurtain drape drapery mantle pall

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English curtine, from Old French cortine, from Late Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”), a calque from Ancient Greek.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage.
  2. noun That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion.
  3. verb To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains.

Etymology [OE.cortin, curtin,fr. OF. cortine, curtine, F. courtine, LL. cortina, curtian (in senses 1 and 2), also, small court, small inclosure surrounded by walls, from cortis court. See Court.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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