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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pulp

UK /pʌlp/ · US /pʊlp/ noun, verb, adjective

Forms pulps pulping pulped

  1. noun A mixture of wood, cellulose and/or rags and water ground up to make paper.
  2. noun A mass of chemically processed wood fibres (cellulose).
  3. noun A suspension of mineral particles, typically achieved by some form of agitation.
  4. noun The soft center of a fruit.
  5. noun The soft center of a tooth.
  6. noun The underside of a human fingertip; a finger pad.
  7. noun The very soft tissue in the spleen.
  8. noun (figurative) A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and characteristically printed on rough, unfinished paper.
  9. verb (ambitransitive) To make or be made into pulp.
  10. verb (transitive, slang) To beat to a pulp.
  11. verb (transitive) To deprive of pulp; to separate the pulp from.
  12. adjective (fiction) Of or pertaining to pulp magazines; in the style of a pulp magazine or the material printed within such a publication.

Synonyms

fruitflesh palp flesh mash pomace pulpish pulpy mush pulp magazine

Etymology

From Middle English pulpe, from Latin pulpa.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A moist, slightly cohering mass, consisting of soft, undissolved animal or vegetable matter. Specifically: (a) (Anat.) A tissue or part resembling pulp; especially, the soft, highly vascular and sensitive tissue which fills the central cavity, called the pulp cavity, of teeth.
  2. verb To reduce to pulp.
  3. verb To deprive of the pulp, or integument.

Etymology [L. pulpa flesh, pith, pulp of fruit: cf. F. pulpe.]

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

Sanskrit

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