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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seasoning

noun

Also a form of season

Forms seasonings

  1. noun (cooking) Something used to add taste or flavour to food, such as salt and pepper or other condiment, herb or spice.
  2. noun (figurative, by extension) Anything added to increase enjoyment.
  3. noun A coat of polymerized oil inside a cooking vessel which renders the surface non-stick.
  4. noun (archaic) An alcoholic intoxication. “Some of our gentlemen officers, happening to stop at a tavern, or rather a sort of grogshop, took such a seasoning that two or three of them became “quite frisky.””
  5. noun In diamond-cutting, the charging of the laps or wheels with diamond dust and oil.
  6. noun The air drying of wood.

Synonyms

drunkenness flavorer flavourer flavoring flavouring seasoner

Etymology

From Middle English seasonyng, present participle of Middle English sesounen (“to season”), equivalent to season + -ing.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act or process by which anything is seasoned.
  2. noun That which is added to any species of food, to give it a higher relish, as salt, spices, etc.; a condiment.

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

Sanskrit

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

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