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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rubber

UK /ˈɹʌbə/ · US /ˈɹʌbɚ/ noun, adjective, verb

Forms rubbers rubbering rubbered

  1. noun (uncountable, countable) Pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree; a hydrocarbon biopolymer of isoprene.
  2. noun (uncountable, countable) Natural rubber or any of various synthetic materials with similar properties as natural rubber.
  3. noun (countable, Australia, India, Brunei, New Zealand, UK) An eraser.
  4. noun (countable, Canada, US, slang) A condom, especially an external condom.
  5. noun (countable) Someone or something which rubs.
  6. noun One who rubs down horses.
  7. noun One who practises massage.
  8. noun A coarse towel for rubbing the body.
  9. adjective (slang, of a draft/check) Not covered by funds on account.
  10. noun The entire series, of an odd number of games or matches in which ties are impossible (especially a series of three games in bridge or whist).
  11. noun An individual match within the series (especially in racquet sports).
  12. noun (sports, Canada, US) A rubber match; a game or match played to break a tie.
  13. noun The game of rubber bridge.
  14. verb (telephony) To eavesdrop on a telephone call
  15. verb (slang) To rubberneck; to observe with unseemly curiosity.

Synonyms

natural rubber condom cum catcher pitcher's plate pitcher's rubber I wouldn't take a check from him. They're pure rubber. hot bad India rubber gum elastic caoutchouc synthetic rubber rubber eraser pencil eraser safety safe prophylactic arctic galosh golosh gumshoe rubberize rubberise no-good

Etymology

The sense of the substance comes from its ability to function as an eraser, displacing earlier caoutchouc. The senses not pertaining to rubbing or erasing are secondarily derived from the name of the substance.

Unknown.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, rubs. Specifically: (a) An instrument or thing used in rubbing, polishing, or cleaning.
  2. noun In some games, as whist, the odd game, as the third or the fifth, when there is a tie between the players; as, to play the rubber; also, a contest determined by the winning of two out of three games; as, to play a rubber of whist. Beaconsfield. "A rubber of cribbage." Dickens.

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

Sanskrit

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