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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mallet

/ˈmælɪt/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms mallets malleting malleted

  1. noun A type of hammer with a larger-than-usual head made of wood, rubber or similar non-iron material, used by woodworkers for driving a tool, such as a chisel. A kind of maul. “Carpenters use mallets for assembling.”
  2. noun (weaponry) A weapon resembling the tool, but typically much larger.
  3. noun (music) A small hammer-like tool used for playing certain musical instruments.
  4. noun (games) A light beetle with a long handle used in playing croquet.
  5. noun (sports) The stick used to strike the ball in the sport of polo.
  6. verb (transitive) To beat or strike with, or as if with, a mallet.
  7. noun A type of articulated locomotive having two powered trucks, with the rear truck being rigidly attached to the main body and boiler of the locomotive, while the front powered truck is attached to the rear by a hinge, so that it may swing from side to side, and with the front end of the boiler resting upon a sliding bearing on the swinging front truck.
  8. proper noun (cryptography) The malicious party in examples of threat scenarios. See Alice and Bob.

Synonyms

Mallory hammer beetle

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English maylet, borrowed from Old French maillet, from mail + -et.

Derived from the name of the inventor, Swiss engineer Anatole Mallet.

Cryptographic scenarios use archetypal characters with standard names chosen to remember their role: Mallet was derived from "malicious" and "man-in-the-middle attack", as well as the tool mallet.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A small maul with a short handle, --used esp. for driving a tool, as a chisel or the like; also, a light beetle with a long handle, --used in playing croquet.

Etymology [F. maillet, dim. of mail. See Mall a beetle.]

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

Sanskrit

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