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

heater

UK /ˈhiːtə/ · US /ˈhitɚ/ noun, proper noun

Forms heaters

  1. noun A device that produces and radiates heat, typically to raise the temperature of a room or building. “Turn on the heater; I'm cold.”
  2. noun A person who heats something, for example in metalworking.
  3. noun (dated, slang) A handgun. “The thug pumped two rounds from his heater into her.”
  4. noun (baseball, slang) A fastball, especially one thrown at high velocity. “Jones threw a heater under his chin.”
  5. noun (gambling, slang) An extended winning streak. “Emmy went on a heater in Las Vegas and came back six thousand dollars richer.”
  6. noun (historical) A medieval European shield having a rounded triangle shape like a clothes iron.
  7. noun (horse racing) A dead heat; a race in which two or more competitors reach the finish line simultaneously.
  8. noun (slang) Synonym of banger (“a powerfully energetic or exceptional song”).
  9. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

banger warmer fastball smoke hummer bullet

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, heats.
  2. noun Any contrivance or implement, as a furnace, stove, or other heated body or vessel, etc., used to impart heat to something, or to contain something to be heated. Feed heater. See under Feed.

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

Sanskrit

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