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

disguise

/dɪsˈɡaɪz/ noun, verb

Forms disguises disguising disguised

  1. noun Material (such as clothing, makeup, a wig) used to alter one’s visual appearance in order to hide one's identity or assume another. “A cape and moustache completed his disguise.”
  2. noun (figuratively) The appearance of something on the outside which masks what’s beneath. “old ideas in a new guise”
  3. noun The act or state of disguising, notably as a ploy. “Any disguise may expose soldiers to be deemed enemy spies.”
  4. noun (archaic) A change of behaviour resulting from intoxication, drunkenness.
  5. verb (transitive) To change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity. “Spies often disguise themselves.”
  6. verb (transitive, obsolete) To transform or disfigure, to change the appearance of in general.
  7. verb (transitive) To avoid giving away or revealing (something secret); to hide by a false appearance. “He disguised his true intentions.”
  8. verb (transitive, obsolete) To dress in newfangled or showy clothing, to deck out in new fashions.
  9. verb (intransitive, obsolete) To dissemble, to talk or act falsely while concealing one’s thoughts.
  10. verb (transitive, archaic) To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.

Synonyms

camouflage mask guise pretense garb masquerade cloak hide

Etymology

From Middle English disgisen, disguisen, borrowed from Old French desguiser (modern French déguiser), itself derived from des- (“dis-”) (from Latin dis-) + guise (“guise”) (from a Germanic source).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To change the guise or appearance of; especially, to conceal by an unusual dress, or one intended to mislead or deceive.
  2. verb To hide by a counterfeit appearance; to cloak by a false show; to mask; as, to disguise anger; to disguise one's sentiments, character, or intentions.
  3. noun A dress or exterior put on for purposes of concealment or of deception; as, persons doing unlawful acts in disguise are subject to heavy penalties.
  4. noun Artificial language or manner assumed for deception; false appearance; counterfeit semblance or show.

Etymology [OE. desguisen, disgisen, degisen, OF. desguisier, F. déguiser; pref. des- (L. dis-) + guise. See Guise.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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