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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spill

[spɪɫ] verb, noun

Forms spills spilling spilled spilt

  1. verb (transitive) To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour. “I spilled some sticky juice on the kitchen floor.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To spread out or fall out, as above. “Some sticky juice spilled onto the kitchen floor.”
  3. verb (intransitive, of a crowd or people within a crowd) To overflow out of a designated area. “The crowd spilled onto Maple Avenue.”
  4. verb (transitive) To drop something that was intended to be caught.
  5. verb To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
  6. verb (obsolete, intransitive) To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
  7. verb (intransitive, also figurative) To overflow or flow out, over or off something.
  8. verb (transitive) To cause or flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
  9. noun Any thing that has been spilled; the resulting mess.
  10. noun A fall or stumble. “The bruise is from a bad spill he had last week.”
  11. noun (archaic) Synonym of taper, a thin stick, long wick, etc. used to transfer flame.
  12. noun A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask'; a spile.
  13. noun A metallic rod or pin.
  14. noun A spillikin.
  15. noun (Shropshire, Herefordshire) A splinter caught in the skin.
  16. noun (mining) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.

Synonyms

taper spillway wasteweir spillage release tumble fall slop splatter run out shed disgorge pour forth talk

Etymology

From Middle English spillen, from Old English spillan, spildan (“to kill, destroy, waste”), from Proto-West Germanic *spilþijan, from Proto-Germanic *spilþijaną (“to spoil, kill, murder”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to sunder, split, rend, tear”).
Cognate with Dutch spillen (“to use needlessly, waste”), French gaspiller ("to waste, squander" < Germanic), Bavarian spillen (“to split, cleave, splinter”), Danish spilde (“to spill, waste”), Swedish spilla (“to spill, waste”), Icelandic spilla (“to contaminate, spoil”). See also spool.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A bit of wood split off; a splinter. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
  2. noun A slender piece of anything. Specifically: -- (a) A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
  3. verb To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay. [Obs.] Spenser.
  4. verb To destroy; to kill; to put an end to. [Obs.]

Etymology [sq. root170. Cf. Spell a splinter.]

Etymology [OE. spillen,sually, to destroy, AS. spillan, spildan, to destroy; akin to Icel. spilla to destroy, Sw. spilla to spill, Dan. spilde,G. & D. spillen to squander, OHG. spildan.]

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