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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

mesh

/mɛʃ/ noun, verb

Forms meshes meshing meshed

  1. noun A structure made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material, with evenly spaced openings between them.
  2. noun The opening or space enclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads enclosing such a space.
  3. noun The engagement of the teeth of wheels, or of a wheel and rack.
  4. noun A measure of fineness (particle size) of ground material. A powder that passes through a sieve having 300 openings per linear inch but does not pass 400 openings per linear inch is said to be -300 +400 mesh.
  5. noun (computer graphics) A polygon mesh.
  6. noun (electronics) In mesh analysis: a loop in an electric circuit (to which Kirchhoff's voltage law can be applied).
  7. noun (networking) A network topology with each device connected to multiple other devices in lieu of a central switch. Redundancy on a mesh network prevents single points of failure.
  8. verb (ambitransitive) To connect together by interlocking, as gears do.
  9. verb (intransitive, figurative, by extension) To fit in; to come together harmoniously. “The music meshed well with the visuals in that film.”
  10. verb (transitive) To catch in a mesh.

Synonyms

lattice network net netting engagement meshing interlocking mesh topology meshwork interlock engage lock operate enmesh ensnarl

Etymology

From Middle English mesche, from Old English masc (“net”) (perhaps influenced in form by related Old English mæscre (“mesh, spot”)), from the related Proto-Germanic *maskwǭ and *maskrǭ respectively, from Proto-Indo-European *mezg- (“to knit, twist, plait”).
Akin to Old High German māsca (“mesh”), Old Saxon maska (“net”), Old Norse mǫskvi, mǫskun (“mesh”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The opening or space inclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads inclosing such a space; network; a net. A golden mesh to entrap the hearts of men. Shak.
  2. noun The engagement of the teeth of wheels, or of a wheel and rack.
  3. verb To catch in a mesh. Surrey.
  4. verb To engage with each other, as the teeth of wheels.

Etymology [AS. masc, max, m; akin to D. maas, masche, OHG. masca, Icel. möskvi; cf. Lith. mazgas a knot, megsti to weave nets, to knot.]

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

Sanskrit

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