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

glut

/ɡlʌt/ noun, verb

Forms gluts glutting glutted

  1. noun An excess, too much. “a glut of the market”
  2. noun That which is swallowed.
  3. noun Something that fills up an opening.
  4. noun A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
  5. noun (mining) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
  6. noun (bricklaying) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
  7. noun (architecture) An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
  8. noun A block used for a fulcrum.
  9. verb (transitive) To fill to capacity; to satisfy all demand or requirement; to sate. “to glut one's appetite”
  10. verb (transitive, economics) To provide (a market) with so much of a product that the supply greatly exceeds the demand.
  11. verb (intransitive) To eat gluttonously or to satiety.

Synonyms

excess overabundance plethora slew surfeit surplus clog oversupply gorge ingurgitate overindulge englut stuff engorge overgorge overeat gormandize gormandise gourmandize binge pig out satiate scarf out flood

Antonyms

lack shortage

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English glotien /glotten, probably derived from Old French gloter /glotir /glotoiier (“to eat greedily”) [compare French engloutir (“to devour”), French glouton (“glutton”)], derived from Latin gluttiō, gluttīre (“to swallow”). Compare Russian глота́ть (glotátʹ, “to swallow”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge.
  2. verb To fill to satiety; to satisfy fully the desire or craving of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy.
  3. verb To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
  4. noun That which is swallowed. Milton

Etymology [OE. glotten, fr. OF. glotir, gloutir, L. glutire, gluttire; cf. Gr. gar. Cf. Gluttion, Englut.]

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