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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jacket

/ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/ noun, verb

Forms jackets jacketing jacketting jacketed jacketted

  1. noun A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
  2. noun A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat (US).
  3. noun An outer garment (usually white) intended for chefs and which may be taken to signify status.
  4. noun (Appalachia, UK) A vest (US); a waistcoat (UK).
  5. noun (US, sports) A letter jacket. “He's hoping to earn his jacket this year.”
  6. noun A lifejacket.
  7. noun A file jacket.
  8. noun (military) In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.
  9. verb To confine (someone) to a straitjacket.
  10. verb (transitive) To enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering.

Synonyms

sleeve straitjacket crown crownwork jacket crown cap

Etymology

From Middle French jacquet, diminutive of Old French jaque.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A short upper garment, extending downward to the hips; a short coat without skirts.
  2. noun An outer covering for anything, esp. a covering of some nonconducting material such as wood or felt, used to prevent radiation of heat, as from a steam boiler, cylinder, pipe, etc.
  3. verb To put a jacket on; to furnish, as a boiler, with a jacket.
  4. verb To thrash; to beat. [Low]

Etymology [F. jaquette, dim. of jaque. See 3d Jack, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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