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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entrain

verb, noun

Forms entrains entraining entrained

  1. verb To draw (something) along as a current does.
  2. verb (chemistry) To suspend (small particles) in the current of a fluid.
  3. verb (mathematics) To set up or propagate (a signal), such as an oscillation.
  4. verb (figuratively) To conjoin, to link; as in a series of entities, elements, objects or processes.
  5. verb (neurobiology) To become trained or conditioned in (a pattern of brain behavior).
  6. verb (now literary and rare) To draw, induce, or bring about.
  7. verb (poetic, intransitive) To get into or board a railway train.
  8. verb (transitive) To put aboard a railway train. “to entrain a regiment”
  9. noun (now rare) Spirit, liveliness, vivacity, drive.

Antonyms

detrain

Etymology

From Middle French entrainer (modern French entraîner /entrainer), from en- + trainer (“to pull, drag”).

From en- + train.

From French entrain, a deverbal from entraîner (“to charm, enthuse”) or a derivation from être en train (“to be in a good mood”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To draw along as a current does; as, water entrained by steam.
  2. verb To put aboard a railway train; as, to entrain a regiment.
  3. verb To go aboard a railway train; as, the troops entrained at the station. [Recent, Eng.]

Etymology [F. entrainer.]

Etymology [Pref. en- + train.]

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