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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

clamp

/ˈklæmp/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms clamps clamping clamped

  1. noun A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things that are apart together.
  2. noun (medicine) An instrument used to temporarily shut off blood vessels, etc.
  3. noun (UK) A parking enforcement device used to immobilise a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
  4. noun A pile of materials to be heated in a controlled way, stacked or heaped together with fuel so that the fire permeates the pile; the material of interest may be bricks to be fired, ore for roasting, coal for coking, or wood to be charcoalized.
  5. noun (agriculture) A compact pile of agricultural produce (such as root vegetables or silage) used for temporary storage (often covered with straw, earth, or both).
  6. noun A piece of wood (batten) across the grain of a board end to keep it flat, as in a breadboard.
  7. noun (electronics) An electronic circuit that fixes either the positive or the negative peak excursions of a signal to a defined value by shifting its DC value.
  8. verb (transitive, intransitive) To fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a clamp.
  9. verb (transitive) To hold or grip tightly.
  10. verb (transitive) To modify (a numeric value) so it lies within a specific range by replacing values outside the range with the closest value within the range.
  11. verb (UK, obsolete, transitive) To cover (vegetables, etc.) with earth.
  12. verb (transitive) To immobilise (a vehicle) by means of a wheel clamp. “I was only parked there for five minutes but my car was still clamped.”
  13. noun (dated) A heavy footstep; a tramp.
  14. verb (intransitive, dated) To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump or clomp.
  15. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

clinch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch clamp, klampe (“a clamp, hook”), from Proto-Germanic *klampō (“clamp, clasp, cramp”), related to Proto-West Germanic *klammjan.
Cognate with Middle Low German klampe (“hook, clasp”), German Klampfe, Klampe (“clamp, cleat”), Norwegian klamp (“clamp”), Alemannic German Chlempi.

Imitative.

From clamp, a metonymic occupational surname for someone who worked with this tool.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together.
  2. noun One of a pair of movable pieces of lead, or other soft material, to cover the jaws of a vise and enable it to grasp without bruising.
  3. verb To fasten with a clamp or clamps; to apply a clamp to; to place in a clamp.
  4. verb To cover, as vegetables, with earth. [Eng.]

Etymology [Cf. LG. & D. klamp, Dan. klampe, also D. klampen to fasten, clasp. Cf. Clam, Cramp.]

Etymology [Prob. an imitative word. Cf.Clank.]

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