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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poise

/pɔɪz/ noun, verb

Forms poises poising poised

  1. noun A state of balance, equilibrium or stability.
  2. noun Composure; freedom from embarrassment or affectation.
  3. noun Mien; bearing or deportment of the head or body.
  4. noun A condition of hovering, or being suspended.
  5. noun (physics) A CGS unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimetre.
  6. noun (obsolete) Weight; an amount of weight, the amount something weighs.
  7. noun The weight, or mass of metal, used in weighing, to balance the substance weighed.
  8. noun That which causes a balance; a counterweight.
  9. verb (obsolete) To hang in equilibrium; to be balanced or suspended; hence, to be in suspense or doubt.
  10. verb (obsolete) To counterpoise; to counterbalance.
  11. verb (obsolete) To be of a given weight; to weigh.
  12. verb (obsolete) To add weight to, to weigh down.
  13. verb (now rare) To hold (something) with or against something else in equilibrium; to balance, counterpose.
  14. verb To hold (something) in equilibrium, to hold balanced and ready; to carry (something) ready to be used. “I poised the crowbar in my hand, and waited.”
  15. verb To keep (something) in equilibrium; to hold suspended or balanced. “The rock was poised precariously on the edge of the cliff.”
  16. verb To ascertain, as if by balancing; to weigh.
  17. noun Unit of viscosity in the centimetre–gram–second system of units (CGS).

Synonyms

aplomb assuredness cool sang-froid brace balance

Etymology

From Middle English poys, poyse, from Anglo-Norman pois, Middle French pois (“weight”) and Anglo-Norman poise, Middle French poise (“measure of weight”), from Latin pendere (“to weigh, ponder, think”). Doublet of peise.

From French physicist and physiologist Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Weight; gravity; that which causes a body to descend; heaviness.
  2. noun The weight, or mass of metal, used in weighing, to balance the substance weighed.
  3. verb To balance; to make of equal weight; as, to poise the scales of a balance.
  4. verb To hold or place in equilibrium or equiponderance.

Etymology [OE. pois, peis, OF. pois, peis, F. poids, fr. L. pensum a portion weighed out, pendere to weigh, weigh out. Cf. Avoirdupois, Pendant, Poise, v.]

Etymology [OE. poisen, peisen, OF. & F. peser, to weigh, balance, OF. il peise, il poise, he weighs, F. il pèse, fr. L. pensare, v. intens. fr. pendere to weigh. See Poise, n., and cf. Pensive.]

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

Sanskrit

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