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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splash

/splæʃ/ noun, verb

Forms splashes splashing splashed

  1. noun (onomatopoeia) The sound made by an object hitting a liquid. “I heard a splash when the rock landed in the pond.”
  2. noun A small amount of liquid. “I felt a splash of rain, so I put up my hood.”
  3. noun A small amount (of color). “The painter put a splash of blue on the wall to make it more colorful”
  4. noun A mark or stain made from a small amount of liquid. “There was a visible splash on his pants after he went to the bathroom.”
  5. noun An impact or impression. “The new movie made quite a splash upon its release.”
  6. noun (computing, informal) A splash screen.
  7. noun (wrestling) A body press; a move where the wrestler jumps forward from a raised platform such as the top turnbuckle, landing stomach first across an opponent lying on the ground below.
  8. noun (dated) A cosmetic powder to whiten the complexion.
  9. verb (intransitive) To hit or agitate liquid so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass. “sit and splash in the bathtub”
  10. verb (intransitive) (of a liquid) To disperse suddenly as a result of an impulse; to splatter. “Water splashed everywhere.”
  11. verb (transitive) To hit or agitate (liquid) so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass. “She splashed water onto her face.”
  12. verb (transitive) To hit or expel liquid at. “The children were splashing each other playfully in the sea.”
  13. verb (transitive) To create an impact or impression; to print, post, or publicize prominently. “The headline was splashed across newspapers everywhere.”
  14. verb (transitive) To spend (money). “After pay day I can afford to splash some cash and buy myself a motorbike.”
  15. verb (figurative) To roughly fill with color.
  16. verb (transitive, nautical) To launch a ship.

Synonyms

plash splasher jooka ~ jooker nank shank bassy rambo pokey chete ying chef ching chib chive enthrill foin gore gride jab job stir dab splatter spatter spattering splashing splattering sprinkle splosh squelch

Etymology

Probably an alteration of plash (compare spatter, spill for the initial s-).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To strike and dash about, as water, mud, etc.; to plash.
  2. verb To spatter water, mud, etc., upon; to wet.
  3. verb To strike and dash about water, mud, etc.; to dash in such a way as to spatter.
  4. noun Water, or water and dirt, thrown upon anything, or thrown from a puddle or the like; also, a spot or daub, as of matter which wets or disfigures.

Etymology [Akin to plash.]

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