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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nozzle

/ˈnɒzəl/ noun

Forms nozzles nosel nosle nozle

  1. noun A short tube, usually tapering, forming the vent of a hose or pipe.
  2. noun A short outlet or inlet pipe projecting from the end or side of a hollow vessel, as a steam-engine cylinder or a steam boiler.
  3. noun The nose of an animal; muzzle.
  4. noun The part of an earbud that accommodates eartips. “The shape of the nozzle prevents the use of aftermarket eartips.”

Synonyms

nose beak honker hooter snoot snout schnozzle schnoz

Etymology

From Middle English noselle, equivalent to nose + -le (diminutive suffix).
Compare typologically Russian сопло (soplo) (<~ сопе́ть (sopétʹ), whence also сопа́тка (sopátka)).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The nose; the snout; hence, the projecting vent of anything; as, the nozzle of a bellows.
  2. noun Specifically: (a) A short tube, usually tapering, forming the vent of a hose or pipe.

Etymology [A dim. of nose. sq. root261]

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

Sanskrit

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