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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alloy

/ˈæ.lɔɪ/ noun, verb

Forms alloys alloying alloyed

  1. noun A metal that is a combination of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal, a base metal.
  2. noun (archaic) A metal of lesser value, mixed with a metal of greater value. “gold without alloy”
  3. noun An admixture; something added which stains, taints etc.
  4. noun (figurative) A fusion, marriage or combination.
  5. verb (transitive) To mix or combine; often used of metals.
  6. verb (transitive) To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance. “to alloy gold with silver or copper, or silver with copper”
  7. verb (figurative, transitive) To impair or debase by mixture. “to alloy pleasure with misfortunes”

Synonyms

abase bastardize sophisticate adulter adulterate adulterize balderdash corrupt dash dilute embase metal admixture debase

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French alloy, aloy, from Old French aloi, from aloiier, from Latin alligō.

Modification of Middle English alayen after Etymology 1, from Middle French allayer, vairant of allier, from Old French allier (“assemble, join”), from Latin alligare (“bind to, tie to”), compound of ad (“to”) + ligare (“to bind”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. But when mercury is one of the metals, the compound is called an amalgam.
  2. noun The quality, or comparative purity, of gold or silver; fineness.
  3. verb To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance; as, to alloy gold with silver or copper, or silver with copper.
  4. verb To mix, as metals, so as to form a compound.

Etymology [OE. alai, OF. alei, F. aloyer, to alloy, alier to ally. See Alloy, v. t.]

Etymology [F. aloyer, OF. alier, allier, later allayer, fr. L. aligare. See Alloy, n., Ally, v.t., and cf. Allay.]

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

Sanskrit

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