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

sheet

UK /ʃiːt/ · US /ʃit/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms sheets sheeting sheeted

  1. noun A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper. “Use the sheets in the hall closet to make the bed.”
  2. noun A piece of paper, usually rectangular, that has been prepared for writing, artwork, drafting, wrapping, manufacture of packaging (boxes, envelopes, etc.), and for other uses. The word does not include scraps and irregular small pieces destined to be recycled, used for stuffing or cushioning or paper mache, etc. In modern books, each sheet of paper is typically folded in half, to produce two leaves and four pages. In the absence of folding, "leaf" and "sheet" are equivalent. “A sheet of paper measuring eight and one-half inches wide by eleven inches high is a popular item in commerce.”
  3. noun A flat metal pan, often without raised edge, used for baking. “Place the rolls on the cookie sheet, edges touching, and bake for 10-11 minutes.”
  4. noun A thin, flat piece or layer of solid material. “The glazer cut several panes from a large sheet of glass.”
  5. noun A broad, flat expanse or covering of a material on a surface. “Mud froze on the road in a solid sheet, then more rain froze into a sheet of ice on top of the mud!”
  6. noun An expanse of something.
  7. noun (nautical) A line (rope) used to adjust the trim of a sail. “To be "three sheets to the wind" is to say that a four-cornered sail is tethered only by one sheet and thus the sail is useless.”
  8. noun (nautical, nonstandard) A sail.
  9. verb (transitive) To cover or wrap with cloth, or paper, or other similar material. “Remember to sheet the floor before you start painting.”
  10. verb (transitive) To form into sheets.
  11. verb (intransitive, of rain, or other precipitation) To pour heavily. “We couldn't go out because the rain was sheeting down all day long.”
  12. verb (nautical) To trim a sail using a sheet.
  13. proper noun A village and civil parish in East Hampshire district, Hampshire, England, previously in Petersfield parish (OS grid ref SU7524).
  14. proper noun A small village in Ludford parish, next to Ludlow, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO5374).

Synonyms

page blanket coat coating layer rope piece of paper sheet of paper bed sheet plane tabloid rag flat solid tack mainsheet weather sheet shroud sail canvas canvass

Etymology

From Middle English schete; partly from Old English sċīete (“a sheet, a piece of linen cloth”); partly from Old English sċēata (“a corner, angle; the lower corner of a sail, sheet”); and Old English sċēat (“a corner, angle”); all from Proto-Germanic *skautijǭ, *skautaz (“corner, wedge, lap”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- (“to throw, shoot, pursue, rush”).
Cognate with North Frisian skut (“the fold of a garment, lap, coattail”), West Frisian skoat (“sheet; sail; lap”), Dutch schoot (“the fold of a garment, lap, sheet”), German Low German Schote (“a line from the foot of a sail”), German Schoß (“the fold of a garment, lap”), Danish skød (“lap, skirt”), Icelandic skaut (“the corner of a cloth, a line from the foot of a sail, the skirt or sleeve of a garment, a hood”), Norwegian skaut (“headdress”), Swedish sköt (“sheet”).

A minced oath of shit.

From Old English sceat (“corner”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies. Specifically: (a) A broad piece of cloth, usually linen or cotton, used for wrapping the body or for a covering; especially, one used as an article of bedding next to the body.
  2. noun The space in the forward or the after part of a boat where there are no rowers; as, fore sheets; stern sheets.
  3. verb To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet. "The sheeted dead." "When snow the pasture sheets." Shak.
  4. verb To expand, as a sheet.

Etymology [OE. shete, schete, AS. sc, sc, fr. sceát a projecting corner, a fold in a garment (akin to D. schoot sheet, bosom, lap, G. schoss bosom, lap, flap of a coat, Icel. skaut, Goth. skauts the hem of a garment); originally, that which shoots out, from the root of AS. sceótan to shoot. sq. root159. See Shoot, v. t.]

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

Sanskrit

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