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

“Taught” is a form of

taut

/tɔːt/ adjective, verb

Forms tauter tautest tauts tauting tauted

  1. adjective Of a body, muscle, etc., not flabby; firm, toned.
  2. adjective Of a person, having a lean, strong body.
  3. adjective Of music, writing, etc., containing only relevant parts; brief and controlled.
  4. adjective (figuratively) Under tension, like a stretched bowstring, rope, or sail; tight.
  5. adjective (figuratively) Experiencing anxiety or stress.
  6. adjective (nautical, figurative) Of a sailor, ship, etc., neat and well-disciplined.
  7. adjective (by extension) Efficient and in order.
  8. adjective (wine) Strong; uncompromising.
  9. verb (transitive) To make taut; to tauten, to tighten.

Synonyms

concise crisp terse tight brief laconic lapidary short-winded succinct to the point nonslack stretched tense tensioned nonrelaxed strained unrelaxed strict

Antonyms

circumlocutory diffuse periphrastic palaverous pleonastic prolix rigmarole sesquipedalian verbose wordy untaut free

Etymology

The adjective is derived from Middle English taught [and other forms], Early Middle English tohte, towehte (“strained, stretched; distended; tight; firm”), probably from tough, touth, touʒth, toʒt (“powerful, strong; fierce, violent; not tender, tough; hardy, resilient; steadfast, stout; difficult to do or endure”) and possibly influenced by togen, towen, past participle of ten (“to extend, stretch out; to drag, haul, pull, tow, tug”) (modern English tee (“(obsolete) to draw, lead; to draw away; to go, proceed”)), or directly from its etymon Old English tēon (“to drag, draw, pull”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to draw, pull”)) The word may be related to thight (“(dialectal) compact, dense; close-fitting, tight”) and tight; and is cognate with Scots tacht, taght (“taut”).
The verb is probably derived from the adjective.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Tight; stretched; not slack; --said esp. of a rope that is tightly strained.
  2. adjective Sung; close; firm; secure. Taut hand (Naut.), a sailor's term for an officer who is severe in discipline.

Etymology [Dan. tæt; akin to E. tight. See Tight.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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