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

halo

noun, verb

Forms halos haloes haloing haloed

  1. noun A circular band of coloured light, visible around the sun or moon etc., caused by reflection and refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere.
  2. noun (astronomy) A cloud of gas and other matter surrounding and captured by the gravitational field of a large diffuse astronomical object, such as a galaxy or cluster of galaxies.
  3. noun Anything resembling this band, such as an effect caused by imperfect developing of photographs.
  4. noun (religion) nimbus, a luminous disc, often of gold, around or over the heads of saints, etc., in religious paintings.
  5. noun The metaphorical aura of glory, veneration or sentiment which surrounds an idealized entity. “her halo slipped”
  6. noun (advertising) The bias caused by the halo effect.
  7. noun (art, religion, iconography) a circular annulus ring, frequently luminous, often golden, floating above the head
  8. noun (medicine) A circular brace used to keep the head and neck in position.
  9. verb (transitive) To encircle with a halo.
  10. noun (bodybuilding slang) The anabolic steroid fluoxymesterone, also known as Halotestin.
  11. noun (informal, baseball) A member of the Angels Major League Baseball team.

Synonyms

aureole nimbus inaureole aura glory gloriole ring annulus doughnut anchor ring

Etymology

Clipping of Halotestin.

From the halo in the team logo.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A luminous circle, usually prismatically colored, round the sun or moon, and supposed to be caused by the refraction of light through crystals of ice in the atmosphere. Connected with halos there are often white bands, crosses, or arches, resulting from the same atmospheric conditions.
  2. noun A circle of light; especially, the bright ring represented in painting as surrounding the heads of saints and other holy persons; a glory; a nimbus.
  3. verb To form, or surround with, a halo; to encircle with, or as with, a halo.

Etymology [L. halos, acc. halo, Gr. volvere, and E. voluble.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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