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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

rinse

/ɹɛns/ verb, noun

Forms rinses rinsing rinsed rinch

  1. verb (transitive) To wash (something) quickly using water and no soap. “You'd better rinse that stain before putting the shirt in the washing machine.”
  2. verb (transitive) To remove soap from (something) using water. “Rinse the dishes after you wash them.”
  3. verb (transitive) To drink and hangout with friends. “Let's Rinse later tonight at my house.”
  4. verb (transitive) To swish (a liquid) around the inside of something.
  5. verb (UK, slang) To thoroughly defeat in an argument, fight or other competition. “You got rinsed.”
  6. noun The action of rinsing. “I'll just give this knife a quick rinse.”
  7. noun A liquid used to rinse, now particularly a hair dye. “I had a henna rinse yesterday.”
  8. noun The act of drawing water into a syringe for the purported purpose of cleaning it.

Synonyms

lavatory wash rinsing rinse off gargle

Etymology

From Middle English rinsen, rincen, rencen (“to rinse”), from Old French rincier, reinser, Old Northern French raïncer (“to rinse, cleanse”). Of contested origin. Possibly from Old Norse hreinsa, from Proto-Germanic *hrainisōną (“to clean, purify”), from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to separate, divide”). Alternatively from a dissimilation of Old French recincier, from Latin recentare (“to make fresh”).
Cognate with French rincer. From the Germanic verb are Danish rense, Norwegian rense, Swedish rensa (all “to clean”), Old High German reinisōn (“to clean, purify, atone”). It is related to German rein (“pure”), Gothic 𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (hrains, “clean”), and English riddle. The Latin verb is related to recent.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To wash lightly; to cleanse with a second or repeated application of water after washing.
  2. verb To cleancse by the introduction of water; --applied especially to hollow vessels; as, to rinse a bottle. "Like a glass did break i' the rinsing." Shak.
  3. noun The act of rinsing.

Etymology [OE., fr. OF. rincer, rimser, reinser, raïncier, F. rincer; of uncertain origin.]

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

Sanskrit

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