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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truss

/tɹʌs/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms trusses trussing trussed

  1. noun A bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place.
  2. noun (architecture) A structure made up of one or more triangular units made from straight beams of wood or metal, which is used to support a structure as in a roof or bridge.
  3. noun (architecture) A triangular bracket.
  4. noun An old English farming measurement. One truss of straw equalled 36 pounds, a truss of old hay equalled 56 pounds, a truss of new hay equalled 60 pounds, and 36 trusses equalled one load.
  5. noun (obsolete) A bundle; a package.
  6. noun (historical) A padded jacket or dress worn under armour, to protect the body from the effects of friction.
  7. noun (historical) Part of a woman's dress; a stomacher.
  8. noun (botany) A tuft of flowers or cluster of fruits formed at the top of the main stem of certain plants.
  9. verb (transitive) To tie up a bird before cooking it.
  10. verb (transitive) To secure or bind with ropes.
  11. verb (transitive) To support.
  12. verb To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon.
  13. verb To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.
  14. verb (slang, archaic) To execute by hanging; to hang; usually with up.
  15. proper noun A surname from Old French.

Synonyms

string up tuck up forhang Guy Fawkes hang ketch send to the scaffold scrag stretch corbel tie down tie up bind

Etymology

From Middle English trusse, from Old French trousse, torse, from Vulgar Latin *torsus, variant of Classical Latin tortus, past participle of torqueō. Doublet of torse and trousse.

From Middle English trussen, from Old French trousser.

From Old French trousse (“bundle, pack”), a metonymic occupational surname for a peddler.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A bundle; a package; as, a truss of grass. Fabyan.
  2. noun A padded jacket or dress worn under armor, to protect the body from the effects of friction; also, a part of a woman's dress; a stomacher. [Obs.] Nares.
  3. verb To bind or pack close; to make into a truss. Shak.
  4. verb To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon.

Etymology [OE. trusse, F. trousse, OF. also tourse; perhaps fr. L. tryrsus stalk, stem. Cf. Thyrsus, Torso, Trousers, Trousseau.]

Etymology [F. trousser. See Truss, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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