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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dose

UK /ˈdəʊ̯s/ · US /ˈdoʊ̯s/ noun, verb

Also a form of doze

Forms doses dosing dosed

  1. noun A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time. “Why did he give you only a single 500 mg dose? The correct dosage of this antibiotic is one 500 mg tablet twice a day for 10 days.”
  2. noun The quantity of an agent (not always active), substance, or radiation administered or experienced at any one time.
  3. noun (figurative, dated) Anything disagreeable that must be taken.
  4. noun (figurative) A good measure or lengthy experience of something. “a healthy dose of skepticism.”
  5. noun (dated) A venereal infection.
  6. noun (Ireland, colloquial) A cold; a common, viral illness of the nasal passage, sometimes with fever. “There's a dose going round.”
  7. verb (transitive) To administer a dose (of medicine) to.
  8. verb To prescribe a dose.
  9. verb (transitive) To surreptitiously administer a dose of an incapacitating drug (to an unwilling subject); to roofie.
  10. verb (transitive, dated) To transmit a venereal disease to.

Synonyms

fill dosage venereal disease VD venereal infection social disease Cupid's itch Cupid's disease Venus's curse sexually transmitted disease STD acid back breaker battery-acid dot Elvis loony toons Lucy in the sky with diamonds pane superman window pane Zen drug

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French dose, from Late Latin dosis, from Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis, “a portion prescribed”, literally “a giving”), used by Galen and other Greek physicians to mean an amount of medicine, from δίδωμι (dídōmi, “to give”). Mostly displaced English drench. Doublet of doos.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time.
  2. noun A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take, or as falls to one to receive.
  3. verb To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses.
  4. verb To give doses to; to medicine or physic to; to give potions to, constantly and without need.

Etymology [F. dose, Gr. dare to give. See Date point of time.]

Etymology [Cf. F. doser. See Dose, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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