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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keyhole

/ˈkiˌhoʊ̯l/ noun, verb

Forms keyholes keyholing keyholed

  1. noun The hole in a lock where the key is inserted and turns.
  2. noun Any small opening resembling the hole for a key in shape or function; especially, one that gives a vista of, or access to, a space beyond.
  3. noun A small incision through which surgical instruments can reach into an anatomic space beyond.
  4. noun A circle cut out of a garment as a decorative effect, typically at the front or back neckline of a dress.
  5. noun (carpentry) A hole or excavation in beams intended to be joined together, to receive the key that fastens them.
  6. noun (engineering) A mortise for a key or cotter.
  7. noun (lasers) A transient column of vapor or plasma formed when using high energy beams, such as lasers, for welding or cutting. “laser keyhole welding”
  8. noun (metallurgy) A welding method in which a hole forms in the surface immediately ahead of the puddle in the direction of welding. The hole is filled as the weld progresses.
  9. verb (firearms) To strike a target after wobbling in flight so that the long axis of the bullet does not follow the line of flight, typically due to insufficient spin resulting from the rifling in the barrel.

Etymology

From key + hole.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A hole or apertupe in a door or lock, for receiving a key.

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