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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haze

/heɪz/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms hazes hazing hazed hase

  1. noun Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. (Compare fog, mist.)
  2. noun A reduction of transparency of a clear gas or liquid.
  3. noun An analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent. “The soap left a persistent haze on the drinking glasses.”
  4. noun (figuratively) Any state suggestive of haze in the atmosphere, such as mental confusion or vagueness of memory.
  5. noun (uncountable, engineering, packaging) The degree of cloudiness or turbidity in a clear glass or plastic, measured in percent.
  6. noun (countable, brewing) Any substance causing turbidity in beer or wine.
  7. verb To be or become hazy, or thick with haze.
  8. verb (US, informal) To perform an unpleasant initiation ritual upon a usually non-consenting person, especially freshmen to a closed community such as a college fraternity or military unit.
  9. verb To oppress or harass by forcing to do hard and unnecessary work.
  10. verb (transitive) In a rodeo, to assist the bulldogger by keeping (the steer) running in a straight line.
  11. verb (transitive) To use aversive stimuli on (a wild animal, such as a bear) to encourage it to keep its distance from humans.
  12. proper noun A diminutive of the female given name Hazel.

Synonyms

daze fog

Etymology

* The earliest instances are of the latter part of the 17th century.
* Possibly back-formation from hazy.
* Compare Old Norse höss (“grey”), akin to Old English hasu (“gray”).

Possibly from hawze (“terrify, frighten, confound”), from Middle French haser (“irritate, annoy”)

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Light vapor or smoke in the air which more or less impedes vision, with little or no dampness; a lack of transparency in the air; hence, figuratively, obscurity; dimness.
  2. verb To be hazy, or tick with haze. Ray.
  3. verb To harass by exacting unnecessary, disagreeable, or difficult work.
  4. verb To harass or annoy by playing abusive or shameful tricks upon; to humiliate by practical jokes; --used esp. of college students; as, the sophomores hazed a freshman.

Etymology [Cf. Icel. höss gray; akin to AS. hasu, heasu, gray; or Armor. aézen, ézen, warm vapor, exhalation, zephyr.]

Etymology [Cf. Sw. haza to hamstring, fr. has hough, OD. hæssen ham.]

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

Sanskrit

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