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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trench

/ˈtɹɛnt͡ʃ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms trenches trenching trenched

  1. noun A long, narrow ditch or hole in the ground; either manmade, or formed naturally through erosion or tectonic plate movement. “The trenches for installing the underground cables were dug with a trencher.”
  2. noun (military) A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces. “The soldiers in the trenches rely on logistical support.”
  3. noun (archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.
  4. noun (informal) A trench coat.
  5. verb (usually followed by upon) To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.
  6. verb (military, infantry) To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.
  7. verb (archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
  8. verb To have direction; to aim or tend.
  9. verb To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
  10. verb To cut furrows or ditches in. “to trench land for the purpose of draining it”
  11. verb To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next. “to trench a garden for certain crops”
  12. proper noun A suburb of Telford, Telford and Wrekin borough, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6912).
  13. proper noun A habitational surname.

Synonyms

deep oceanic abyss impinge encroach entrench ditch

Etymology

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French trenche. Doublet of tranche and traunch. Possible doublet of English: truncate

From trench.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.
  2. verb To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench. Pope.
  3. verb To encroach; to intrench.
  4. verb To have direction; to aim or tend. [R.] Bacon. To trench at, to make trenches against; to approach by trenches, as a town in besieging it. [Obs.]

Etymology [OF. trenchier to cut, F. trancher; akin to Pr. trencar, trenchar, Sp. trinchar, It. trinciare; of uncertain origin.]

Etymology [OE. trenche, F. tranchée. See Trench, v. t.]

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

Sanskrit

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