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

dike

/daɪk/ verb, noun, proper noun

Also a form of dyke

Forms dikes diking diked

  1. verb (US dialect slang, obsolete) To be well dressed.
  2. noun (US dialect slang, obsolete) Formalwear or other fashionable dress.
  3. verb (technical, slang) To cut or remove using dikes.
  4. proper noun A topographic surname from Middle English for someone living near a dike.
  5. proper noun (Greek mythology) The goddess/personification of justice, order and judgement and one of the Horae. She is a daughter of Zeus and Themis, and her sisters are Eirene and Eunomia. Her Roman counterpart is Justitia.
  6. proper noun (astronomy) 99 Dike, a main belt asteroid.
  7. proper noun (poetic) justice, order and judgement.
  8. proper noun (historical, Greek mythology) The goddess personifying the principle of justice.

Synonyms

dapperling macaroni toff barbermonger beau blade blood buck carpet knight cockscomb dandy dood dude dudelet exquisite fashionable fast man fine gentleman fop foretop butch dyke dam

Antonyms

Adikia

Etymology

Of uncertain etymology, first attested in mid-19th century Virginia. Possibly a variant of deck and deck out or influenced by them.

Contraction of diagonal + cutters.

From Northern Middle English dik and dike (“ditch”), from Old Norse díki (“ditch”). Influenced by Middle Dutch dijc (“ditch; dam”) and Middle Low German dīk (“dam”). See also ditch.

From Middle English (see the noun dike). Compare Dyke.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.
  2. noun An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.
  3. verb To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.
  4. verb To drain by a dike or ditch.

Etymology [OE. dic, dike, diche, ditch, AS. d dike, ditch; akin to D. dijk dike, G. deich, and prob. teich pond, Icel. d dike, ditch, Dan. dige; perh. akin to Gr. dough; or perh. to Gr. Ditch.]

Etymology [OE. diken, dichen, AS. dician to dike. See Dike.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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