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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faucet

UK /ˈfɔːsɪt/ · US /ˈfɔsɪt/ noun

Forms faucets

  1. noun (Canada, US) An exposed plumbing fitting; a tap or spigot; a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir. “The rain ceased as if a faucet had been turned off.”
  2. noun (game development) One or several systems that inject currency into the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation
  3. noun A tapered tube, designed to be forced into a matching hole in a barrel, with the outer end holding a plug cock for decanting liquid from the barrel.

Synonyms

tap spigot

Antonyms

sink

Etymology

From Middle English faucet, fawcett, from Old French fausset, of uncertain origin:
* Possibly from Late Latin falsāre (“to falsify”) or from a diminutive of Latin faux, faucēs (“throat”).
* Alternatively, from Old Norse foss, fors (“waterfall”), thus, cognate with English force, foss.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A fixture for drawing a liquid, as water, molasses, oil, etc., from a pipe, cask, or other vessel, in such quantities as may be desired; --called also tap, and cock. It consists of a tubular spout, stopped with a movable plug, spigot, valve, or slide.
  2. noun The enlarged end of a section of pipe which receives the spigot end of the next section.

Etymology [F. fausset, perh. fr. L. fauces throat.]

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