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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intercept

UK /ɪntəˈsɛpt/ · US /ɪntɚˈsɛpt/ verb, noun

Forms intercepts intercepting intercepted interceptest interceptedst intercepteth

  1. verb (transitive) To stop, deflect or divert (something in progress or motion). “The police intercepted the package of stolen goods while it was in transit.”
  2. verb (transitive, sports) To gain possession of (the ball) in a ball game.
  3. verb (transitive, American football) Of a defensive player: to steal a pass thrown by the opposing team, gaining possession of the ball.
  4. verb (transitive, mathematics) To take or comprehend between.
  5. verb To perform an aeronautical action in which a fighter approaches a suspicious aircraft to escort it away from a prohibited area, or approaches an enemy aircraft to shoot it down.
  6. noun An interception of a radio broadcast or a telephone call.
  7. noun An interception of a missile.
  8. noun (algebraic geometry) The coordinate of the point at which a curve intersects an axis. “the y intercept”
  9. noun (marketing) A form of market research where consumers are intercepted and interviewed in a retail store or mall.

Synonyms

stop wiretap tap bug

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin interceptum, past participle of intercipiō.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To take or seize by the way, or before arrival at the destined place; to cause to stop on the passage; as, to intercept a letter; a telegram will intercept him at Paris.
  2. verb To obstruct or interrupt the progress of; to stop; to hinder or oppose; as, to intercept the current of a river.
  3. noun A part cut off or intercepted, as a portion of a line included between two points, or cut off two straight lines or curves.

Etymology [L. interceptus, p. p. of intercipere to intercept; inter between + capere to take, seize: cf. F. intercepter. See Capable.]

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

Sanskrit

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