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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haul

UK /hɔːl/ · US /hɔl/ verb, noun

Forms hauls hauling hauled

  1. verb (transitive) To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle. “to haul logs to a sawmill”
  2. verb (transitive) To draw or pull something heavy.
  3. verb (transitive) To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
  4. verb (transitive, figuratively) To drag, to pull, to tug.
  5. verb (transitive, figuratively) Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.
  6. verb (intransitive) To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
  7. verb (ambitransitive, nautical) To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind.
  8. verb (intransitive, nautical) Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow).
  9. noun An act of hauling or pulling, particularly with force; a (violent) pull or tug.
  10. noun The distance over which something is hauled or transported, especially if long. “Getting to his place was a real haul.”
  11. noun An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip. “The robber’s haul was over thirty items.”
  12. noun (ropemaking) A bundle of many threads to be tarred.
  13. noun (UK, soccer) Four goals scored by one player in a game.

Synonyms

booty poker draw haulage catch hale cart drag

Antonyms

veer

Etymology

From Middle English hālen, hailen, haulen, halien (“to drag, pull; to draw up”), from Old French haler (“to haul, pull”), from Frankish *halōn (“to drag, fetch, haul”) or Middle Dutch halen (“to drag, fetch, haul”), possibly merging with Old English *halian (“to haul, drag”); all from Proto-Germanic *halōną, *halēną, *hulōną (“to call, fetch, summon”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, cry, summon”). The noun is derived from the verb.
The word is cognate with Danish hale (“to haul”), Middle Dutch halen (“to draw, fetch, haul”), Dutch halen (“to fetch, bring, haul”), Old Frisian halia, Saterland Frisian halen (“to draw, haul, pull”), Low German halen (“to draw, pull”), Old High German halôn, holôn, German holen (“to fetch, get”), Norwegian hale (“to haul”), Old Saxon halôn (“to fetch, get”), Swedish hala (“to hale, haul, pull, tug”), and related to Old English ġeholian (“to get, obtain”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To pull or draw with force; to drag.
  2. verb To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; as, to haul logs to a sawmill.
  3. verb To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See under Haul, v. t. I . . . hauled up for it, and found it to be an island. Cook.
  4. verb To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked. To haul around (Naut.), to shift to any point of the compass; --said of the wind.

Etymology [OE. halen, halien, F. geholian to acquire, get, D. halen to fetch, pull, draw, OHG. hol, hal, G. holen, Dan. hale to haul, Sw. hala, and to L. calare to call, summon, Gr. Hale, v. t., Claim. Class, Council, Ecclesiastic.]

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