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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tore

UK /tɔː(ɹ)/ · US /tɔɹ/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Also a form of tear

Forms tores tor

  1. adjective (dialectal or obsolete) Hard, difficult; wearisome, tedious.
  2. adjective (dialectal or obsolete) Strong, sturdy; great, massive.
  3. adjective (dialectal or obsolete) Full; rich.
  4. noun (geometry) torus
  5. noun The solid enclosed by a torus
  6. noun (obsolete) The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring.
  7. proper noun A village in Highland, Scotland.

Synonyms

anchor ring torus

Etymology

From Middle English tor, tore, toor, from Old Norse tor- (“hard, difficult, wrong, bad”, prefix), from Proto-Germanic *tuz- (“hard, difficult, wrong, bad”), from Proto-Indo-European *dus- (“bad, ill, difficult”). Cognate with Old High German zur- (“mis-”, prefix), Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌶- (tuz-, “hard, difficult”, prefix), Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-, “bad, ill, difficult”, prefix). More at dys-.

See torus.

Probably from the root of tear; compare Welsh word for a break or cut.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring. [Prov. Eng.] Mortimer.
  2. noun Same as Torus.
  3. noun (a) The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane.

Etymology [Probably from the root of tear; cf. W. tór a break, cut, tóri to break, cut.]

Etymology [See Torus.]

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

Sanskrit

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