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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dresser

/ˈdɹɛsə/ noun, proper noun

Forms dressers

  1. noun (UK) An item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or utensils.
  2. noun (US) An item of bedroom furniture, like a low chest of drawers (bureau), often with a mirror.
  3. noun One who dresses in a particular way. “He's a very snappy dresser.”
  4. noun (theater, film, television) A wardrobe assistant (who helps actors put on their costume).
  5. noun A servant to royalty etc. who helps them with tasks such as dressing.
  6. noun (medicine) A surgeon's assistant who helps to dress wounds etc.
  7. noun (UK) A football hooligan who wears designer clothing; a casual.
  8. noun A mechanical device used in grain mills for bolting.
  9. noun A mechanical device used in ore mills for dressing (e.g., comminution, sorting, sifting). “ore dresser”
  10. noun (dated) A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.
  11. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

bolt bolter chest of drawers chest bureau actor's assistant dressing table vanity toilet table

Etymology

From Middle English dressure, dressor, dressour, a borrowing from Old French drecëur, drecëure, from the verb dresser.

From Middle English dresser, equivalent to dress + -er.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who dresses; one who put in order or makes ready for use; one who on clothes or ornaments.
  2. noun A kind of pick for shaping large coal.

Etymology [F. dressoir. See Dress, v. t.]

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

Sanskrit

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