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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lace

/leɪs/ noun, verb

Forms laces lacing laced

  1. noun (uncountable) A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread.
  2. noun (countable) A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten the shoe or garment firmly. “your laces are untied, do them up!”
  3. noun A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.
  4. noun (slang, obsolete) Spirits added to coffee or another beverage.
  5. verb (ergative) To fasten (something) with laces.
  6. verb To interweave items. “to lace one's fingers together”
  7. verb (cycling) To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
  8. verb To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
  9. verb To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material. “cloth laced with silver”
  10. verb (figuratively) To intersperse or diversify with something.
  11. verb To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).
  12. verb To cover intricately with bands, strips, or the like, so as to resemble a lace.

Synonyms

shoelace tie entwine interlace interweave betwine braid entwist interthread intertwine intertwist lock raddle ruddle twine twist lacing enlace plait lace up spike fortify

Etymology

From Middle English lace, laace, las, from Old French las, from Vulgar Latin *laceum, based on Latin laqueus. Doublet of lasso.

From Middle English lacen, lasen, from Old French lacer, lacier, lasser, lachier, from the noun (see above).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun That which binds or holds, especially by being interwoven; a string, cord, or band, usually one passing through eyelet or other holes, and used in drawing and holding together parts of a garment, of a shoe, of a machine belt, etc. His hat hung at his back down by a lace. Chaucer.
  2. noun A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net. [Obs.] Fairfax.
  3. verb To fasten with a lace; to draw together with a lace passed through eyelet holes; to unite with a lace or laces, or, figuratively. with anything resembling laces. Shak.
  4. verb To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material; as, cloth laced with silver. Shak.

Etymology [OE. las, OF. laz, F. lacs, dim. lacet, fr. L. laqueus noose, snare; prob. akin to lacere to entice. Cf. Delight, Elicit, Lasso, Latchet.]

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

Sanskrit

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