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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barrier

/ˈbæɹi.ə/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms barriers barriering barriered

  1. noun A structure that bars passage. “The bus went through a railway barrier and was hit by a train.”
  2. noun An obstacle or impediment. “Even a small fee can be a barrier for some students.”
  3. noun A boundary or limit. “Few marathon runners break the three-hour time barrier.”
  4. noun (grammar) A node (in government and binding theory) said to intervene between other nodes A and B if it is a potential governor for B, c-commands B, and does not c-command A.
  5. noun (physiology) A separation between two areas of the body where specialized cells allow the entry of certain substances but prevent the entry of others.
  6. noun (historical) The lists in a tournament.
  7. noun (historical, in the plural) A martial exercise of the 15th and 16th centuries.
  8. verb (transitive) To block or obstruct with a barrier.
  9. proper noun A surname from French.

Synonyms

bar roadblock

Etymology

From Middle English barrer, barrere, barryȝer, from Anglo-Norman barrere (compare French barrière), from barre (“bar”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A carpentry obstruction, stockade, or other obstacle made in a passage in order to stop an enemy.
  2. noun A fortress or fortified town, on the frontier of a country, commanding an avenue of approach.

Etymology [OE. barrere, barere, F. barrière, fr. barre bar. See Bar, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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