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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rebound

UK /ɹiˈbaʊnd/ · US /ˈɹi.baʊnd/ noun, verb

Also a form of rebind

Forms rebounds rebounding rebounded

  1. noun The recoil of an object bouncing off another.
  2. noun A return to health or well-being; a recovery. “I am on the rebound.”
  3. noun An effort to recover from a setback.
  4. noun (colloquial) The period of getting over a recently ended romantic relationship.
  5. noun (colloquial) A romantic partner with whom one begins a relationship (or the relationship one begins) for the sake of getting over a previous, recently ended romantic relationship.
  6. noun (sports) The strike of the ball after it has bounced off a defending player or the crossbar or goalpost.
  7. noun (basketball) An instance of catching the ball after it has hit the rim or backboard without a basket being scored, generally credited to a particular player.
  8. verb To bound or spring back from a force.
  9. verb To give back an echo.
  10. verb (figuratively) To jump up or get back up again.
  11. verb (transitive) To send back; to reverberate.
  12. verb (basketball) To catch the ball after it has hit the rim or backboard without scoring a basket for the other team.

Synonyms

recoil repercussion backlash bounce resile take a hop spring bound reverberate ricochet rally

Etymology

From Old French rebondir.

see rebind

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo.
  2. verb To give back an echo. [R.] T. Warton.
  3. verb To send back; to reverberate.
  4. noun The act of rebounding; resilience.

Etymology [Pref. re- + bound: cf. F. rebondir.]

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

Sanskrit

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