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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ice

/aɪs/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms ices icing iced ICEing yce

  1. noun Water in frozen (solid) form. “He said, “Where we’re at right now was back in 2008 all covered with ice. From here to there at the side, the glacier shrank about 20 to 30 meters.””
  2. noun (physics, astronomy) Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide.
  3. noun (astronomy) Any volatile chemical, such as water, ammonia, or carbon dioxide, not necessarily in solid form, when discussing the composition of e.g. a planet as an ice giant vs a gas giant.
  4. noun (figuratively) Something having an extreme coldness of manner. “a heart of ice”
  5. noun (figuratively) Something, such as awkwardness, that prevents open social interaction. “break the ice”
  6. noun (ice hockey) The area where a game of ice hockey is played.
  7. noun (now dialectal) Icing; frosting ("a sweet, often creamy and thick glaze made primarily of sugar").
  8. noun (UK, dated) Ice cream.
  9. verb (intransitive) To become ice; to freeze.
  10. verb (transitive) To cool with ice, as an injured body part or a beverage.
  11. verb (transitive) To make icy; to freeze. “The bridge ices before the road.”
  12. verb (transitive) To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc.
  13. verb (transitive, ice hockey) To put out a team for a match. “Milton Keynes have yet to ice a team this season”
  14. verb (transitive, ice hockey) To shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called icing. “If the Bruins ice the puck, the faceoff will be in their own zone.”
  15. verb (transitive, slang) To murder.
  16. verb (transitive, slang) To defeat decisively. “Despite his vulnerabilities, Clinton managed to ice Dole in his 1996 reelection campaign for President.”
  17. verb (automotive, slang) To occupy a reserved electric car parking space (especially one equipped with a charger) with a traditional car equipped with an internal combustion engine.
  18. verb (slang, neologism, transitive, uncommon) To apprehend or deport by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
  19. verb (slang, neologism, transitive, uncommon) To kill (in reference to and hypothetically by Immigration and Customs Enforcement).
  20. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

crystal meth IVI water ice sparkler frosting icing frappe methamphetamine methamphetamine hydrochloride Methedrine meth deoxyephedrine chalk chicken feed crank glass shabu trash internal-combustion engine ice rink ice-skating rink frost

Etymology

From Middle English hyse, hyys, ice, ijs, is, yce, ys, yys, from Old English īs, from Proto-West Germanic *īs, from Proto-Germanic *īsą (“ice”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH- (“ice, frost”).
Cognate with North Frisian Iis, is (“ice”), Saterland Frisian Ies (“ice”), West Frisian iis (“ice”), Alemannic German Iis, isch, éisch (“ice”), Bavarian, Cimbrian, and Mòcheno ais (“ice”), Dutch ijs (“ice”), German Eis (“ice”), German Low German Ies (“ice”), Luxembourgish Äis (“ice”), Vilamovian ajs (“ice”), Yiddish אײַז (ayz, “ice”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish is (“ice”), Elfdalian ais (“ice”), Faroese ísur (“ice”), Icelandic ís (“ice”); also Cornish yey (“ice”), yeyn (“cold”), Irish oighear (“ice”), Scottish Gaelic deigh, eigh, eighre (“ice”), Welsh iâ (“ice”), Lithuanian ýnis (“hoar frost”), Bulgarian and Russian и́ней (ínej, “hoar frost”), Czech jíní (“frost”), Macedonian and Serbo-Croatian и́ње (“hoar frost”), Ukrainian і́ній (ínij, “hoar frost, rime”), Ossetian их (ix, “ice”), Armenian եղյամ (eġyam, “frost, hoar frost, rime”), Persian یخ (yax, “ice”), Hittite 𒂊𒃷 (“ice”). Superseded non-native Middle English glace (“ice”), borrowed from Old French glace (“ice”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, brittle, and viscoidal. Its specific gravity (0.92, that of water at 4° C. being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats.
  2. noun Concreted sugar. Johnson.
  3. verb To cover with ice; to convert into ice, or into something resembling ice.
  4. verb To cover with icing, or frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg; to frost, as cakes, tarts, etc.

Etymology [OE. is, iis, AS. is; aksin to D. ijs, G. eis, OHG. is, Icel. iss, Sw. is, Dan. iis, and perh. to E. iron.]

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

Sanskrit

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