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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reservoir

UK /ˈɹɛz.ə.vwɑː/ · US /ˈɹɛz.ə(ɹ).vwɑɹ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms reservoirs reservoiring reservoired

  1. noun A place where anything is kept in store.
  2. noun A large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply.
  3. noun A small intercellular space, often containing resin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter.
  4. noun A supply or source of something.
  5. noun A species that acts as host to a zoonosis when it is not causing acute illness in other susceptible species.
  6. noun (computing) A "black box" component that receives an input signal to be read out and mapped by another process, as part of reservoir computing.
  7. verb (transitive) To store or keep (something) in or as in a reservoir.
  8. proper noun A suburb of Melbourne in the City of Darebin, Victoria, Australia

Synonyms

conservatory artificial lake man-made lake source

Etymology

From French réservoir (“collection place”) (fig.), réservoir (“storehouse”) (lit.). in turn from French réserver (“to reserve, keep”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A place where anything is kept in store; especially, a place where water is collected and kept for use when wanted, as to supply a fountain, a canal, or a city by means of aqueducts, or to drive a mill wheel, or the like.
  2. noun A small intercellular space, often containing Receiving reservoir (Water Works), a principal reservoir into which an aqueduct or rising main delivers water, and from which a distributing reservoir draws its supply.

Etymology [F. réservoir, fr. LL. reservatorium. See Reservatory.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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