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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snare

UK /snɛə/ · US /snɛ(ə)ɹ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms snares snaring snared

  1. noun A trap (especially one made from a loop of wire, string, or leather).
  2. noun A mental or psychological trap.
  3. noun (veterinary medicine) A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal.
  4. noun (surgery) A similar looped instrument formerly used to remove tumours etc.
  5. noun (music) A set of stiff wires held under tension against the bottom head of a drum to create a rattling sound.
  6. noun (music) A snare drum.
  7. verb (transitive) To catch or hold, especially with a loop.
  8. verb (transitive, figurative) To ensnare.
  9. verb (transitive, intransitive, uncommon) To play (a snare drum, or a beat on or as if on a snare drum).
  10. proper noun A surname.
  11. noun (biochemistry) Any of a class of proteins whose primary role is to mediate vesicle fusion.

Synonyms

trap snare drum side drum gin noose entrap ensnare trammel hook

Etymology

From Middle English snare, from Old English sneare (“snare, noose”), from Proto-West Germanic *snarhā, from Proto-Germanic *snarhǭ (“a sling; loop; noose”). Cognate with Old Norse snara. Also related to German Schnur and Dutch snaar, snoer.

* As a Norwegian surname, from several farms whose name derive from snar (“thicket, brushwood”), perhaps related to Old Norse snarpr (“coarse, rough, sharp”).
* As an English surname, variant of Snarr.

Short for SNAP receptor.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A contrivance, often consisting of a noose of cord, or the like, by which a bird or other animal may be entangled and caught; a trap; a gin.
  2. noun Hence, anything by which one is entangled and brought into trouble.
  3. verb To catch with a snare; to insnare; to entangle; hence, to bring into unexpected evil, perplexity, or danger.

Etymology [AS. sneara cord, a string; akin to D. snoer, G. schnur, OHG. snour a cord, snarahha a noose, Dan. snare, Sw. & Icel. snara, Goth. sn a basket; and probably also to E. needle. See Needle, and cf. Snarl to entangle.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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