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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

festoon

/fɛsˈtuːn/ noun, verb

Forms festoons festooning festooned

  1. noun An ornament such as a garland or chain which hangs loosely from two tacked spots.
  2. noun (architecture) A bas-relief, painting, or structural motif resembling such an ornament.
  3. noun A raised cable with light globes attached.
  4. noun (astronomy) A cloud on Jupiter that hangs out of its home belt or zone into an adjacent area forming a curved finger-like image or a complete loop back to its home belt or zone.
  5. noun (acarology) Any of a series of wrinkles on the backs of some ticks.
  6. noun (technology) A specific style of electric light bulb consisting of a cylindrical enclosure with two points of contact on either end providing power to the filament or diode.
  7. noun (manufacturing) Two sets of rollers used to create a buffer of material on web handling equipment.
  8. noun Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Zerynthia.
  9. verb To decorate as if with ornaments, such as garlands or chains, which hang loosely from two tacked spots.
  10. verb To make festoons.
  11. verb To decorate or bedeck abundantly. “He was bewildered by how the car was festooned with polka dots.”
  12. verb (dentistry, transitive) To apply texturing to (a denture) to simulate human tissue.

Synonyms

festoonery

Etymology

F. feston (cf. Sp. feston, It. festone), prob. fr. L. festum festival. See Feast.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A garland or wreath hanging in a depending curve, used in decoration for festivals, etc.; anything arranged in this way.
  2. noun A carved ornament consisting of flowers, and leaves, intermixed or twisted together, wound with a ribbon, and hanging or depending in a natural curve. See Illust. of Bucranium.
  3. verb To form in festoons, or to adorn with festoons.

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

Sanskrit

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