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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glider

UK /ˈɡlaɪdə(ɹ)/ · US /ˈɡlaɪdɚ/ noun

Forms gliders

  1. noun One who glides.
  2. noun Any heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; a sailplane.
  3. noun A pilot of glider aircraft.
  4. noun Any animal with the ability to glide, such as the marsupial gliding possums of Australia.
  5. noun Synonym of glide (“cap affixed to base of legs of furniture”).
  6. noun A kind of garden swing.
  7. noun (cellular automata) In the Game of Life, a particular configuration of five cells that recurs periodically at fixed offsets and appears to "walk" across the grid.
  8. noun (by extension) Any spaceship in a cellular automaton, especially one which exhibits glide reflection.

Synonyms

glide sailplane

Etymology

From Middle English glider, glydare, equivalent to glide + -er.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, glides.
  2. noun The angle, esp. the least angle, at which a gliding machine or aëroplane will glide to earth by virtue of gravity without applied power.

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

Sanskrit

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