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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muster

UK /ˈmʌstə/ · US /ˈmʌstɚ/ noun, verb

Forms musters mustering mustered

  1. noun An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
  2. noun (military) An assembling or review of troops, as for parade, verification of numbers, inspection, exercise, or introduction into service.
  3. noun The sum total of an army when assembled for review and inspection; the whole number of effective men in an army.
  4. noun (Australia, New Zealand) A roundup of livestock for inspection, branding, drenching, shearing etc.
  5. noun (obsolete) Something shown for imitation; a pattern.
  6. noun (obsolete) A sample of goods.
  7. noun (obsolete) An act of showing something; a display.
  8. noun (collective) A group of peafowl, storks or sometimes other birds.
  9. verb (transitive, obsolete) To show, exhibit.
  10. verb (intransitive) To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like (especially of a military force); to come together as parts of a force or body.
  11. verb (transitive) To collect, call or assemble together, such as troops or a group for inspection, orders, display etc.
  12. verb (transitive, US) To enroll (into service).
  13. verb (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To gather or round up livestock.
  14. verb (transitive) To look within oneself to summon (a particular positive quality, such as strength, energy or courage); see: muster up. “I couldn't muster the courage to tell him.”
  15. noun Synonym of mustee.

Synonyms

review parade military parade rally mustee conscription draft selective service summon come up muster up

Etymology

From Middle English musteren, borrowed from Anglo-Norman mostrer, Middle French monstrer, moustrer (whence the noun monstre, which gave the English noun), from Latin mōnstrō (“to show”), from moneō (“to admonish”). Cognate with French montrer (“to show”), Italian mostrare (“to show”), Spanish mostrar (“to show”). See also monster.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Something shown for imitation; a pattern. [Obs.]
  2. noun A show; a display. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.
  3. verb To collect and display; to assemble, as troops for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like. Spenser.
  4. verb Hence: To summon together; to enroll in service; to get together.

Etymology [OE. moustre, OF. mostre, moustre, F. montre, LL. monstra. See Muster, v. t.]

Etymology [OE. mustren, prop., to show, OF. mostrer, mustrer, moustrer, monstrer, F. montrer, fr. L. monstrare to show. See Monster.]

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

Sanskrit

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