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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spiral

/ˈspaɪɹəl/ noun, adjective, verb

Forms spirals spiraling spiralling spiraled spiralled

  1. noun (geometry) A curve that is the locus of a point that rotates about a fixed point while continuously increasing its distance from that point.
  2. noun (informal) A helix.
  3. noun A self-sustaining process with a lot of momentum involved, so it is difficult to accelerate or stop it at once.
  4. noun (rail transport) A section of track that forms a circle and crosses over itself, used for gaining height in mountainous territory.
  5. adjective Helical, like a spiral.
  6. verb (intransitive) To move along the path of a spiral or helix. “The falling leaves spiralled down from the tree.”
  7. verb (transitive) To cause something to spiral. “You need to learn how to spiral a ball.”
  8. verb (figuratively, intransitive) To increase continually. “Her debts were spiralling out of control.”
  9. verb (intransitive) To decline mentally. “She spiralled into a deep depression.”

Synonyms

swirl billow gyrate spire helix volute coil whorl corkscrew coiling helical spiraling voluted whorled turbinate

Etymology

From Middle French spirale, from Medieval Latin spiralis, from Latin spīra, from Ancient Greek σπεῖρα (speîra, “wreath, coil, twist”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Winding or circling round a center or pole and gradually receding from it; as, the spiral curve of a watch spring.
  2. adjective Winding round a cylinder or imaginary axis, and at the same time rising or advancing forward; winding like the thread of a screw; helical.
  3. noun A plane curve, not reëntrant, described by a point, called the generatrix, moving along a straight line according to a mathematical law, while the line is revolving about a fixed point called the pole.
  4. noun Anything which has a spiral form, as a spiral shell. Equiangular spiral,a plane curve which cuts all its generatrices at the same angle. Same as Logarithmic spiral, under Logarithmic.

Etymology [Cf. F. spiral. See Spire a winding line.]

Etymology [Cf. F. spirale. See Spiral, a.]

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

Sanskrit

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