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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paste

UK /ˈpæsteɪ/ · US /ˈpɑsteɪ/ noun, verb

Also a form of pasta

Forms pastes pasting pasted

  1. noun One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.
  2. noun (obsolete) Pastry.
  3. noun One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste.
  4. noun One used as an adhesive, especially for putting up wallpapers, etc.
  5. noun (physics) A substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied, at which point it flows like a fluid.
  6. noun (glassworking, jewelry) A hard lead-containing glass; an artificial gemstone made from this glass.
  7. noun (obsolete) Pasta.
  8. noun (mineralogy) The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.
  9. verb (transitive) To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.
  10. verb (transitive, computing) To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.
  11. verb (transitive, slang) To strike or beat someone or something.
  12. verb (transitive, slang) To defeat decisively or by a large margin.

Synonyms

glue adhesive library paste spread

Etymology

From Middle English paste, from Old French paste (modern pâte), from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá). Doublet of pasta. The verb is from the noun. Middle English had pasten (“to make a paste of; bake in a pastry”), also from the noun; compare Latin pistō and Medieval Latin pastillātus.

Probably an alteration of baste (“beat”) influenced by some sense of the noun.

Unadapted borrowing from Italian paste (“pastas”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A soft composition, as of flour moistened with water or milk, or of earth moistened to the consistence of dough, as in making potter's ware.
  2. noun Specifically, in cookery, a dough prepared for the crust of pies and the like; pastry dough.
  3. verb To unite with paste; to fasten or join by means of paste.

Etymology [OF. paste, F. pâte, L. pasta, fr. Gr. Pasty, n., Patty.]

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

Sanskrit

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