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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lance

UK /lɑːns/ · US /læns/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms lances lancing lanced

  1. noun A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.
  2. noun A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight’s armour.
  3. noun (fishing) A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
  4. noun (military) A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
  5. noun (military) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
  6. noun (metallurgy) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
  7. noun (pyrotechnics) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
  8. noun (medicine) A lancet.
  9. verb To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
  10. verb (medicine) To open with a lancet; to prick or cut open with a sharp instrument; to pierce. “to lance a vein or an abscess”
  11. verb To throw in the manner of a lance; to lanch.
  12. verb (informal) To steal or swipe. “He lanced my drink and spiked it!”
  13. verb To move suddenly and quickly.
  14. proper noun A surname originating as a patronymic.
  15. proper noun A diminutive of the male given name Lancelot.
  16. proper noun A male given name transferred from the surname.

Synonyms

spear shaft gig fizgig fishgig lancet

Etymology

From Middle English launce, from Old French lance, from Latin lancea.

The surname is derived from a medieval given name Lanzo, short form of names beginning with the Germanic element *land; see land. Doublet of Lanzo.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and often decorated with a small flag; also, a spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
  2. noun A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
  3. verb To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
  4. verb To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess.

Etymology [OE. lance, F. lance, fr. L. lancea; cf. Gr. Launch.]

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

Sanskrit

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