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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breast

/bɹɛst/ noun, verb

Forms breasts breasting breasted brest

  1. noun (anatomy) Either of the two organs on the front of a female human's chest, which contain the mammary glands; also the analogous organs in males. “Tanya’s breasts grew remarkably during pregnancy.”
  2. noun (anatomy) The chest, or front of the human thorax.
  3. noun A section of clothing covering the breast area.
  4. noun The figurative seat of the emotions, feelings etc.; one’s heart or innermost thoughts. “She kindled hope in the breast of all who heard her.”
  5. noun The ventral portion of an animal’s thorax. “The robin has a red breast.”
  6. noun A choice cut of poultry, especially chicken or turkey, taken from the bird’s breast; also a cut of meat from other animals, breast of mutton, veal, pork. “Would you like breast or wing?”
  7. noun The front or forward part of anything. “chimney breast”
  8. noun The upper surface of a landform or body of water.
  9. verb (transitive, often figurative) To push against with the breast; to meet full on, oppose, face.
  10. verb (transitive) To reach the top of (a hill or other prominence). “He breasted the hill and saw the town before him.”
  11. verb (transitive, cooking) To debreast.

Synonyms

chest heart soul white meat brisket bosom knocker boob tit titty summit front

Antonyms

thigh wing dark meat

Etymology

From Middle English brest, from Old English brēost, from Proto-West Germanic *breust, from Proto-Germanic *breustą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to swell”). Compare West Frisian boarst, Danish bryst, Swedish bröst; cf. also Dutch borst, German Brust.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse.
  2. noun Either one of the protuberant glands, situated on the front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a mammma; a teat.
  3. verb To meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves.
  4. noun A torus. [Obs.]

Etymology [OE. brest, breost, As. breóst; akin to Icel. brj, Sw. bröst, Dan. bryst, Goth. brusts, OS. briost, D. borst, G. brust.]

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

Sanskrit

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