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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dent

/dɛnt/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms dents denting dented

  1. noun A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact. “The crash produced a dent in the left side of the car.”
  2. noun (figurative) A minor effect made upon something. “to make a dent”
  3. noun A type of maize/corn with a relatively soft outer hull, and a soft type of starch that shrinks at maturity to leave an indentation in the surface of the kernel.
  4. noun (by extension, informal) A sudden negative change, such as loss, damage, weakening, consumption or diminution, especially one produced by an external force, event or action “That purchase put a bit of a dent in my wallet.”
  5. verb (transitive) To impact something, producing a dent.
  6. verb (intransitive) To develop a dent or dents. “Copper is soft and dents easily.”
  7. noun (engineering) A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.
  8. noun (weaving) A slot or a wire in a reed.
  9. proper noun A village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD7086).
  10. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

incision scratch prick slit ding gouge nick indent

Etymology

From Middle English dent, dente, dint (“a blow; strike; dent”), from Old English dynt (“blow, strike, the mark or noise of a blow”), from Proto-Germanic *duntiz (“a blow”). Akin to Old Norse dyntr (“dint”). Doublet of dint.

From French dent, from Latin dēns, dentis (“tooth”). Doublet of dens and tooth.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A stroke; a blow. [Obs.] "That dent of thunder." Chaucer.
  2. noun A slight depression, or small notch or hollow, made by a blow or by pressure; an indentation.
  3. verb To make a dent upon; to indent.
  4. noun A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc. Knight.

Etymology [A variant of Dint.]

Etymology [F., fr. L. dens, dentis, tooth. See Tooth.]

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