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

cane

/keɪn/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms canes caning caned

  1. noun (uncountable) The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae.
  2. noun (uncountable) The plant itself, including many species in the grass family Gramineae; a reed.
  3. noun (uncountable) Sugar cane.
  4. noun (US, Southern) Maize or, rarely, sorghum, when such plants are processed to make molasses (treacle) or sugar.
  5. noun (countable) A short rod or stick, traditionally of wood or bamboo, used for corporal punishment.
  6. noun (with "the") Corporal punishment by beating with a cane. “The teacher gave his student the cane for throwing paper.”
  7. noun A lance or dart made of cane.
  8. noun (countable) A strong short staff used for support or decoration during walking; a walking stick. “After breaking his leg, he needed a cane to walk.”
  9. verb To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement.
  10. verb (transitive) To make or furnish with cane or rattan. “to cane chairs”
  11. verb (UK, New Zealand, slang) To destroy; to comprehensively defeat. “Mudchester Rovers were caned 10-0.”
  12. verb (UK, New Zealand, slang) To do something well, in a competent fashion.
  13. verb (UK, slang) To go very fast.
  14. verb (UK, Australia, slang, intransitive) To produce extreme pain. “Don’t hit me with that. It really canes!”
  15. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

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Etymology

From Middle English cane, canne, from Old French cane (“sugar cane”), from Latin canna (“reed”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”). Doublet of canna and kaneh. Related to channel and canal.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun (a) A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Dæmanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans.
  2. noun A walking stick; a staff; --so called because originally made of one the species of cane.
  3. verb To beat with a cane. Macaulay.
  4. verb To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs.

Etymology [OE. cane, canne, OF. cane, F. canne, L. canna, fr. Gr. qaneh reed. Cf. Canister, canon, 1st Cannon.]

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

Sanskrit

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