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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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pallet

/ˈpælɪt/ noun, verb

Forms pallets palleting palleted palet

  1. noun A bed of loose straw.
  2. noun (by extension) Any makeshift bedding place.
  3. noun A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.
  4. verb (transitive) To load or stack (goods) onto pallets.
  5. noun (heraldry) A narrow vertical stripe, narrower than a pale. Diminutive of pale.
  6. noun A wooden implement, often oval or round, used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works.
  7. noun A potter's wheel.
  8. noun (gilding) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
  9. noun (gilding) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
  10. noun (brickmaking) A board on which a newly moulded brick is conveyed to the hack.
  11. noun (engineering) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
  12. noun (engineering) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
  13. noun (horology) One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel.
  14. noun (historical, rare) A Parisian measure of blood let; a cup containing three ounces, formerly used by surgeons.

Synonyms

strawbed scratcher skid palette

Etymology

From Middle English paillet, from Anglo-Norman paillete (“bundle of straw”), from Old French paille (“straw, chaff”), from Latin palea (“chaff”).

Said to be from Middle English *palet, from Middle French *palet, from Middle French pal (“pale”), ultimately from Latin palla (“a strip of cloth”).

Learned borrowing from French palette.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A small and mean bed; a bed of straw. Milton.
  2. noun Same as Palette.
  3. noun (a) A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms.

Etymology [OE. paillet, F. paillet a heap of straw, fr. paille straw, fr. L. palea chaff; cf. Gr. pala straw, palava chaff. Cf. Paillasse.]

Etymology [F. palette: af. It. paletta; prop. and orig., a fire shovel, dim. of L. pala a shovel, spade. See Peel a shovel.]

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

Sanskrit

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