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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torrent

UK /ˈtɒɹənt/ · US /ˈtoɹənt/ noun, adjective, verb

Forms torrents torrenting torrented

  1. noun A violent flow, as of water, lava, etc.; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice. “Rain fell on the hills in torrents.”
  2. noun (figuratively) A large amount or stream of something. “They endured a torrent of inquiries.”
  3. adjective Rolling or rushing in a rapid stream.
  4. verb To fall or flow in a torrent; to pour.
  5. noun (Internet, file sharing) A set of files obtainable through a peer-to-peer network, especially BitTorrent. “I got a torrent of the complete works of Shakespeare the other day; I'm not sure why.”
  6. verb (Internet slang, transitive) To download in a torrent. “The video rental place didn't have the film I was after, but I managed to torrent it.”

Synonyms

cascade deluge flood outpouring downpour cloudburst waterspout pelter soaker violent stream inundation

Antonyms

dribble trickle

Etymology

Borrowed from French torrent, from Italian torrente, from Latin torrentem, accusative of torrēns (“burning, seething, roaring”), from Latin torrēre (“to parch, scorch”).

From BitTorrent and the file extension it uses for metadata (.torrent); ultimately from etymology 1, carrying the notion of the flow of information.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A violent stream, as of water, lava, or the like; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice.
  2. noun Fig.: A violent or rapid flow; a strong current; a flood; as, a torrent of vices; a torrent of eloquence.
  3. adjective Rolling or rushing in a rapid stream. "Waves of torrent fire." Milton.

Etymology [F., fr. L. torrens, -entis, fr. torrens burning, roaring, boiling, p. pr. of torrere to dry by heat, to burn. See Torrid.]

Etymology [See Torrent, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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