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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roaster

noun

Forms roasters

  1. noun Someone who roasts coffee beans; a company or place of business that does so. “Several artisanal roasters are operating in the region now.”
  2. noun A machine for roasting things; especially, one that roasts coffee beans. “They've invested in large roasters with impressive stainless steel parts.”
  3. noun (cooking) A kitchen utensil used for roasting. “I found a really nice roaster in the kitchenware aisle, plus a bamboo cutting board.”
  4. noun A chicken, pig, etc. suitable for roasting. “I found a really nice roaster in the meat department, and I'm going to make some stuffing for it, too.”
  5. noun Someone who roasts food. “Hank is just about everyone's favorite pig roaster around here. He stays pretty busy with block parties, weddings, and reunions.”
  6. noun A type of industrial furnace; especially, one that roasts ore. “Having been dumped out of the mine cars, the ore then moves along a conveyor to the roaster.”
  7. noun One who roasts or banters, especially as a comedy routine. “He does standup, and he's a pretty good roaster.”
  8. noun (planetology, informal) An epistellar gas giant exoplanet. “Some of the earliest discoveries of exoplanets were roasters because they are the least difficult to detect.”

Synonyms

roastery roaster oven roasting tin roasting pan addle-brain addlehead addle pate airhead baboon beanbrain beetlebrain beetlehead berk bimbo birdbrain blockhead blubberbrain bonehead Boeotian boob

Etymology

From Middle English roster, roostare, equivalent to roast + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (patient suffix). Same formation as roster, although the words have very different meanings.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who roasts meat.
  2. noun A contrivance for roasting.

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