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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poach

/ˈpoʊt͡ʃ/ verb, noun

Forms poaches poaching poached

  1. verb (transitive) To cook (something) in simmering or very hot liquid (usually water; sometimes wine, broth, or otherwise).
  2. verb (intransitive) To be cooked in such manner.
  3. noun The act of cooking in simmering liquid.
  4. verb (ambitransitive) To trespass on another's property to take fish or game.
  5. verb (ambitransitive) To take game or fish illegally.
  6. verb (by extension, ambitransitive) To take anything illegally or unfairly.
  7. verb (figurative) To intrude; to interfere; to get involved inappropriately, without welcome. “to poach in foreign academic disciplines”
  8. verb (business, ambitransitive) To entice (an employee or customer) to switch from a competing company to one's own.
  9. verb To make soft or muddy by trampling. “Cattle coming to drink had punched and poached the river bank into a mess of mud.”
  10. verb To become soft or muddy by being trampled on.
  11. verb (obsolete) To stab; to pierce; to spear or drive or plunge into something.
  12. noun The act of taking something unfairly, as in tennis doubles where one player returns a shot that their partner was better placed to return.

Synonyms

jab run through chef chib ching chive enthrill foin gore gride job juke kebab knifecrime lancinate pigstick pink shank shiv spear

Etymology

From Middle English pochen (“to poach (eggs)”), from Old French pocher "to put (egg yolks) in pockets" (i.e. in bags formed by the whites), from Old French poche (“pocket”).

From Old French pocher, pochier (“to trample, poach into”). Doublet of poke.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water; also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel. Bacon.
  2. verb To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as game; hence, to plunder. Garth.
  3. verb To steal or pocket game, or to carry it away privately, as in a bag; to kill or destroy game contrary to law, especially by night; to hunt or fish unlawfully; as, to poach for rabbits or for salmon.
  4. verb To stab; to pierce; to spear, \as fish. [Obs.] Carew.

Etymology [F. pocher to place in a pocket, to poach eggs (the yolk of the egg being as it were pouched in the white), from poche pocket, pouch. See Pouch, v. &n.]

Etymology [Cf. OF. pocher to thrust or dig out with the fingers, to bruise (the eyes), F. pouce thumb, L. pollex, and also E. poach to cook eggs, to plunder, and poke to thrust against.]

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