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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tincture

UK /ˈtɪŋ(k)tʃə/ · US /ˈtɪŋ(k)t͡ʃɚ/ noun, verb

Forms tinctures tincturing tinctured

  1. noun (obsolete) A pigment or other substance that colours or dyes; specifically, a pigment used as a cosmetic. [15th–19th c.]
  2. noun A colour or tint, especially if produced by a pigment or something which stains; a tinge.
  3. noun (figuratively) A slight addition of a thing to something else; a shade, a touch, a trace.
  4. noun (heraldry) A hue or pattern used in the depiction of a coat of arms.
  5. noun The act of colouring or dyeing.
  6. noun A slight physical quality other than colour (especially taste), or an abstract quality, added to something; a tinge. “a tincture of orange peel”
  7. noun A small flaw; a blemish, a stain.
  8. noun (Christianity) Synonym of baptism.
  9. verb (chiefly in past participle form) To colour or stain (something) with, or as if with, a dye or pigment.
  10. verb (figuratively, chiefly in past participle form) Followed by with: to add to or impregnate (something) with (a slight amount of) an abstract or (obsolete) physical quality; to imbue, to taint, to tinge.
  11. verb (pharmacy) To dissolve (a substance) in ethanol or some other solvent to produce a medicinal tincture.
  12. verb (intransitive, rare) To have a taint or tinge of some quality.

Synonyms

baptism adult beverage alcohol bevvy booze carouse drink fuddling grog hard drink libation liquor lush nightcap potation potent potable sauce shot strong drink strong water trace vestige shadow shade tint tone impregnate infuse instill

Etymology

The noun is derived from Late Middle English tincture (“a dye, pigment; a colour, hue, tint; process of colouring or dyeing; medicinal ointment or salve (perhaps one discolouring the skin); use of a medicinal tincture; (alchemy) transmutation of base metals into gold; ability to cause such transmutation; substance supposed to cause such transmutation”) [and other forms], borrowed from Latin tīnctūra (“act of dyeing”) + Middle English -ure (suffix indicating an action or a process and the means or result of that action or process). Tīnctūra is derived from tīnctus (“coloured, tinged; dipped in; impregnated with; treated”) + -tūra (suffix forming action nouns expressing activities or results); while tīnctus is the perfect passive participle of tingō (“to colour, dye, tinge; to dip (in), immerse; to impregnate (with); to moisten, wet; to smear”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to dip; to soak”). Doublet of tainture, teinture, and tinctura.
The verb is derived from the noun.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A tinge or shade of color; a tint; as, a tincture of red.
  2. noun One of the metals, colors, or furs used in armory.
  3. verb To communicate a slight foreign color to; to tinge; to impregnate with some extraneous matter.
  4. verb To imbue the mind of; to communicate a portion of anything foreign to; to tinge.

Etymology [L. tinctura a dyeing, from tingere, tinctum, to tinge, dye: cf. OE. tainture, teinture, F. teinture, L. tinctura. See Tinge.]

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