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

“caging” is a form of

cage

/keɪd͡ʒ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms cages caging caged kage

  1. noun An enclosure made of spaced bars, normally to hold animals while providing some ventilation. “We keep a bird in a cage.”
  2. noun The passenger compartment of a lift.
  3. noun (field hockey or ice hockey, water polo) The goal.
  4. noun (by extension, US, slang) Synonym of automobile.
  5. noun (figuratively) Something that hinders freedom.
  6. noun (slang) A prison or prison cell.
  7. noun (athletics) The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.
  8. noun An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
  9. verb (transitive) To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.
  10. verb (transitive, slang) To imprison. “The serial killer was caged for life.”
  11. verb (transitive, figuratively) To restrict someone's movement or creativity.
  12. verb (aviation) To immobilize an artificial horizon. “To prevent damage to its gimbal mountings during extreme aerobatic maneuvers, the navball should be caged before the start of a display sequence.”
  13. verb To track individual responses to direct mail, either (advertising) to maintain and develop mailing lists or (politics) to identify people who are not eligible to vote because they do not reside at the registered addresses.
  14. proper noun A surname from French.

Synonyms

automobile coop John Cage John Milton Cage Jr. batting cage cage in

Etymology

From Middle English cage, from Old French cage, from Latin cavea. Doublet of cadge and cavea and related to jail.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals.
  2. noun A place of confinement for malefactors Shak.
  3. verb To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine. "Caged and starved to death." Cowper.

Etymology [F. cage, fr. L. cavea cavity, cage, fr. cavus hollow. Cf. Cave, n., Cajole, Gabion.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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