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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tub

/tʌb/ noun, verb

Forms tubs tubbing tubbed

  1. noun A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in. “He bought a tub of lard to roast the potatoes in.”
  2. noun The contents or capacity of such a vessel. “She added a tub of margarine to the stew.”
  3. noun A bathtub.
  4. noun (nautical, informal) A slow-moving craft.
  5. noun (humorous or derogatory) Any structure shaped like a tub, such as a certain old form of pulpit, a short broad boat, etc.
  6. noun A small cask. “a tub of gin”
  7. noun Any of various historically designated quantities of goods to be sold by the tub (butter, oysters, etc).
  8. noun (mining) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft.
  9. verb (transitive) To plant, set, or store in a tub. “to tub a plant”
  10. verb (ambitransitive) To bathe in a tub.

Synonyms

bathtub bathing tub bath vat tubful

Etymology

From Middle English tubbe, tobbe, from Middle Dutch tubbe or Middle Low German tubbe, tobbe, further etymology unknown. Considered to be unrelated to tube.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin, usually with but one head, --used for various purposes.
  2. noun The amount which a tub contains, as a measure of quantity; as, a tub of butter; a tub of camphor, which is about 1 cwt., etc.
  3. verb To plant or set in a tub; as, to tub a plant.
  4. To make use of a bathing tub; to lie or be in a bath; to bathe.

Etymology [OE. tubbe; of Dutch or Low German origin; cf. LG. tubbe, D. tobbe.]

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

Sanskrit

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