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

“bred” is a form of

braid

/bɹeɪd/ verb, noun, adjective, proper noun

Forms braids braiding braided brayde breyde broid brade brad bread bred breid breyd

  1. verb (obsolete, transitive) To make a sudden movement with, to jerk.
  2. verb (archaic, intransitive) To start into motion.
  3. verb (transitive) To weave together, intertwine (strands of fibers, ribbons, etc.); to arrange (hair) in braids.
  4. verb To mix, or make uniformly soft, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in preparing food.
  5. verb (obsolete) To reproach; to upbraid.
  6. noun (obsolete, countable) A sudden movement; a jerk, a wrench.
  7. noun A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration.
  8. noun A stranded wire composed of a number of smaller wires twisted together.
  9. noun A tubular sheath made of braided strands of metal placed around a central cable for shielding against electromagnetic interference.
  10. noun (obsolete) A caprice or outburst of passion or anger.
  11. noun (mathematics, topology) Given two sets of n points on corresponding positions on two parallel lines, a braid is a unique set of crossings (over or under) between n strands that connect each point on one line to a point on the other line such that all points represent the terminus of one and only one strand and the traversal of any strand from a starting point to an ending point never moves further away from the from the ending point.
  12. noun (dialectal) A wicker guard for protecting newly grafted trees.
  13. noun (obsolete) A moment, stound.
  14. adjective (obsolete) Crafty, deceitful.
  15. noun (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) A shelf or board for holding objects.
  16. noun (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) A board to press curd for cheese.
  17. noun (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) A flat board attached to a beam, used for weighing.
  18. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

interlace interthread twine betwine entwist entwine intertwine intertwist interweave lace lock raddle ruddle twist plait tress gold braid braiding pleach

Antonyms

unbraid

Etymology

From Middle English braiden, breided, bræiden, from Old English breġdan (“to move quickly, pull, shake, swing, throw (wrestling), draw (sword), drag; bend, weave, braid, knit, join together; change color, vary, be transformed; bind, knot; move, be pulled; flash”), from Proto-West Germanic *bregdan, from Proto-Germanic *bregdaną (“to flicker, flutter, jerk, tug, twitch, flinch, move, swing”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrēḱ-, *bʰrēǵ- (“to shine, shimmer”).
Cognate with Scots Scots brade, Scots braid (“to move quickly or suddenly”), Saterland Frisian braidje (“to knit”), West Frisian breidzje, Dutch breien (“to knit”), Low German breiden, German breiden, Bavarian bretten (“to move quickly, twitch”), Icelandic bregða (“to move quickly, jerk”), Faroese bregða (“to move quickly, react swiftly; to draw (sword)”) and Faroese bregda (“to plaid, braid, twist, twine”).

From Middle English brede, bræd, bred, from Old English bred (“board, plank, tablet, table”), from Proto-West Germanic *bred, from Proto-Germanic *bredą (“board, plank”), e-grade byform of *burdą (“board, plank”). Cognate with Scots bred, braid, brad (“board, plank, wooden tablet”), Saterland Frisian Brääd (“board, plank”), West Frisian bret (“board, plank”), Dutch bred, berd (“plank, table”), German Low German Bredd (“board, plank”), German Brett (“board, plank”), Danish bræt (“board, plank”)..

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To weave, interlace, or entwine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait.
  2. verb To mingle, or to bring to a uniformly soft consistence, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in some culinary operations.
  3. noun A plait, band, or narrow fabric formed by intertwining or weaving together different strands.
  4. noun A narrow fabric, as of wool, silk, or linen, used for binding, trimming, or ornamenting dresses, etc.

Etymology [OE. braiden, breiden, to pull, reach, braid, AS. bregdan to move to and fro, to weave; akin. to Icel. breg, D. breiden to knit, OS. bregdan to weave, OHG. brettan to brandish. Cf. Broid.]

Etymology [Cf.Icel. breg to move quickly.]

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

Sanskrit

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