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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batter

UK /ˈbætə/ · US /ˈbætɚ/ verb, noun

Forms batters battering battered

  1. verb To hit or strike violently and repeatedly. “The firemen battered down the door.”
  2. verb (cooking) To coat with batter (the food ingredient). “I prefer it when they batter the cod with breadcrumbs.”
  3. verb (figurative) To defeat soundly; to thrash. “Leeds United battered Charlton 7-0.”
  4. verb (UK, slang, usually in the passive) To intoxicate. “That cocktail will batter you!”
  5. verb (metalworking) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
  6. verb (UK, obsolete) To coat in a paste-like substance; to fasten with a paste-like glue.
  7. noun (cooking, countable, uncountable) A beaten mixture of flour and liquid (usually egg and milk), used for baking (e.g. pancakes, cake, or Yorkshire pudding) or to coat food (e.g. fish) prior to frying. “To the dismay of his mother, the boy put his finger into the pancake batter.”
  8. noun (countable, slang) A binge; a heavy drinking session. “When he went on a batter, he became very violent.”
  9. noun A paste of clay or loam.
  10. noun (countable, printing) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
  11. verb (architecture) To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).
  12. noun (architecture) An incline on the outer face of a built wall.
  13. noun (baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat. “The first batter hit the ball into the corner for a double.”
  14. noun (cricket) A player of the batting side now on the field.
  15. noun (cricket) The player now receiving strike; the striker.
  16. noun (cricket) Any player selected for his or her team principally to bat, as opposed to a bowler.

Synonyms

thrash intoxicate bender binge hitter batsman slugger buffet knock about clobber baste dinge

Etymology

From Middle English batteren, batren, bateren, a frequentative of Middle English batten, baten (“to beat”), equivalent to bat + -er (frequentative suffix).

From Middle English bature, from Old French bateure (“the action of beating”), from batre (“to beat”). Doublet of batture.

Unknown.

From bat + -er (agent noun suffix).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or rampart.
  2. verb To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage. "Each battered jade." Pope.
  3. noun A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc. , beaten together and used in cookery. King.
  4. noun Paste of clay or loam. Holland.

Etymology [OE. bateren, OF. batre, F. battre, fr. LL. battere, for L. batuere to strike, beat; of unknown origin. Cf. Abate, Bate to abate.]

Etymology [OE. batere, batire; cf. OF. bateure, bature, a beating. See Batter, v. t.]

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