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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garage

UK /ˈɡæ.ɹɪdʒ/ · US /ɡəˈɹɑʒ/ noun, verb

Forms garages garaging garaged

  1. noun A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.
  2. noun (chiefly Commonwealth, dated in US) A place where cars are serviced and repaired.
  3. noun (chiefly Commonwealth) A petrol filling station.
  4. noun (aviation) A shed for housing an airship or aeroplane or a launchable missile; a hangar.
  5. noun A side way or space in a canal to enable vessels to pass each other; a siding.
  6. noun (attributive, music) A type of guitar rock music, personified by amateur bands playing in the basement or garage; garage rock.
  7. noun (UK, music) A type of electronic dance music related to house music, with warped and time-stretched sounds; UK garage.
  8. verb To store in a garage. “We garaged the convertible during the monsoon months.”

Synonyms

auto shop car workshop vehicle workshop petrol station filling station gas station service station service department

Etymology

Borrowed from French garage (“keeping under cover, protection, shelter”), derivative of French garer (“to keep under cover, dock, shunt, guard, keep”), from Middle French garer, garrer, guerrer; partly from Old French garir, warir (from Old Frankish *warjan); and partly from Old French varer (“to fight, defend oneself, protect”), from Old Norse varask (“to defend oneself”), reflexive of vara (“to ware, watch out, defend”); both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *warjaną (“to defend, ward off”), *warōną (“to watch, protect”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to close, cover, protect, save, defend”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A place for housing automobiles.
  2. noun A shed for housing an airship or flying machine; a hangar.
  3. verb To keep in a garage. [Colloq.]

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