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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gravy

/ˈɡɹeɪvi/ noun, verb

Forms gravies gravying gravied

  1. noun A dark savoury sauce prepared from stock and usually meat juices; brown gravy. “A roast dinner isn't complete without gravy.”
  2. noun (Southern US) A pale sauce prepared from a roux with meat fat; a type of béchamel sauce. “There are few foods more Southern than biscuits and gravy.”
  3. noun (uncountable, chiefly Italian-American) Sauce used for pasta.
  4. noun (uncountable, India, Singapore) Curry sauce.
  5. noun (uncountable, informal) Unearned gain; extra benefit. “The first thousand tickets and the concessions cover the venue and the band. The rest is gravy.”
  6. verb To make gravy.

Synonyms

pan gravy boom bonanza gold rush godsend manna from heaven windfall bunce

Etymology

From Middle English gravey, greavie, gravy; probably from greaves, graves (“the sediment of melted tallow”), or from Old French grave, a claimed misspelling of grané (“stew, spice”), from grain (“spice”).
Sense of "pasta sauce" apparently seems to be from Italian dialect, especially Calabrian, differentiating tomato puree (salsa (“sauce”)) from cooked tomato sauce (sugo).

Webster’s 1913

  1. The juice or other liquid matter that drips from flesh in cooking, made into a dressing for the food when served up.
  2. Liquid dressing for meat, fish, vegetables, etc.

Etymology [OE. greavie; prob. fr. greaves, graves, the sediment of melted tallow. See Greaves.]

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

Sanskrit

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