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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grease

UK /ɡɹiːs/ · US /ɡɹis/ noun, verb

Forms greases greasing greased

  1. noun Animal fat in a melted or soft state.
  2. noun (by extension) Any oily or fatty matter.
  3. noun Shorn but not yet cleansed wool.
  4. noun Inflammation of a horse's heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis.
  5. noun (slang) Money.
  6. noun (slang, dated, printing) Synonym of fat (“work containing much blank, profitable to the compositor”).
  7. verb (transitive) To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.
  8. verb (transitive, informal) To bribe.
  9. verb (transitive, informal) To cause to go easily; to facilitate.
  10. verb (transitive, slang, aviation) To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly. “To my amazement, I greased the landing despite the tricky crosswinds.”
  11. verb (transitive, slang) To kill.
  12. verb (transitive, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
  13. verb (obsolete) To cheat or cozen; to overreach.
  14. verb To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.

Synonyms

fat lard wax whack bump off hit annihilate bag baptize bereave of life blight bring down bury cack compromised to a permanent end croak crush dash deactivate dead lubricating oil dirt filth grime soil stain grunge

Etymology

From Middle English grece, from Anglo-Norman grece, from Vulgar Latin *crassia, noun derived from Latin crassus (“fat, thick”). Doublet of crass.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Animal fat, as tallow or lard, especially when in a soft state; oily or unctuous matter of any kind.
  2. noun An inflammation of a horse's heels, suspending the ordinary greasy secretion of the part, and producing dryness and scurfiness, followed by cracks, ulceration, and fungous excrescences. Grease bush. (Bot.) Same as Grease wood (below).
  3. verb To smear, anoint, or daub, with grease or fat; to lubricate; as, to grease the wheels of a wagon.
  4. verb To bribe; to corrupt with presents.

Etymology [OE. grese, grece, F. graisse; akin to gras fat, greasy, fr. LL. grassus thick, fat, gross, L. crassus. Cf. Crass.]

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

Sanskrit

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