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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hose

UK /həʊz/ · US /hoʊz/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms hoses hosen hosing hosed

  1. noun (countable) A flexible tube conveying water or other fluid.
  2. noun (uncountable) A stocking-like garment worn on the legs; pantyhose, women's tights.
  3. noun (historical) Close-fitting trousers or breeches, reaching to the knee.
  4. verb (transitive) To water or spray with a hose.
  5. verb (transitive) To spray as if with a hose; to spray in great quantity.
  6. verb (transitive) To deliver using a hose.
  7. verb (transitive) To provide with hose (garment)
  8. verb (transitive) To trick or deceive.
  9. verb (transitive, computing, slang) To break or destroy (a system), especially by wiping files or other content.
  10. verb (transitive, sports) To cause an unfair disadvantage to a player or team through poor officiating; especially, to cause a player or team to lose the game with an incorrect call.
  11. proper noun A surname.
  12. proper noun A village in Clawson, Hose and Harby parish, Melton borough, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK7329).

Synonyms

hosiery hosepipe hose down

Etymology

From Middle English hose (“leggings, hose”), from Old English hose, hosa (“hose, leggings”), from Proto-West Germanic *hosā, from Proto-Germanic *husǭ (“coverings, leggings, trousers”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”).
Cognate with West Frisian hoas (“hose”), Dutch hoos (“stocking, water-hose”), German Hose (“trousers”); also, Tocharian A kać (“skin”), Russian кишка́ (kišká, “gut”), Ancient Greek κύστις (kústis, “bladder”), Sanskrit कोष्ठ (koṣṭha, “intestine”). More at sky.
The clothing senses were the original meaning, from which is derived the sense of a tube for fluids.

* As an English, Scottish, and German surname, from the noun hose (“leggings”).
* Also as a German surname, from the Czech personal name Hos, shortened from Johannes, or from host (“guest”), see Hosack.
* Also as an English surname, from Old English hās, side form of hǣse (“underwood”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *haistr (“young tree”).
* Also as an English surname, variant of Howes.
* Also as an English surname, shortened from Hussey.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Close-fitting trousers or breeches, as formerly worn, reaching to the knee.
  2. noun Covering for the feet and lower part of the legs; a stocking or stockings.

Etymology [AS. hose; akin to D. hoos, G. hose breeches, OHG. hosa, Icel. hosa stocking, gather, Dan. hose stocking; cf. Russ. koshulia a fur jacket.]

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