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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cement

/səˈmɛnt/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms cements cementing cemented caement cæment

  1. noun (countable, uncountable) A powdered substance produced by firing (calcining) calcium carbonate (limestone) and clay that develops strong cohesive properties when mixed with water. The main ingredient of concrete.
  2. noun (uncountable) The paste-like substance resulting from mixing such a powder with water, or the rock-like substance that forms when it dries.
  3. noun (uncountable) Any material with strong adhesive and cohesive properties such as binding agents, glues, grout.
  4. noun (figurative) A bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship or in society. “the cement of our love”
  5. noun (anatomy) The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; cementum.
  6. verb (transitive) To affix with cement.
  7. verb (transitive) To overlay or coat with cement. “to cement a cellar floor”
  8. verb (transitive, figurative) To unite firmly or closely.
  9. verb (transitive, figurative) To repair.
  10. verb (transitive, figurative) To make permanent.
  11. proper noun A town in Oklahoma.

Synonyms

cementum

Etymology

From Middle English syment, cyment, from Old French ciment, from Latin caementum (“quarry stone; stone chips for making mortar”), from caedō (“to cut, hew”). Doublet of cementum.

Named for its early cement industry.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Any substance used for making bodies adhere to each other, as mortar, glue, etc.
  2. noun A kind of calcined limestone, or a calcined mixture of clay and lime, for making mortar which will harden under water.
  3. verb To unite or cause to adhere by means of a cement. Bp. Burnet.
  4. verb To unite firmly or closely. Shak.

Etymology [OF. cement, ciment, F. ciment, fr. L. caementum a rough, unhewn stone, pieces or chips of marble, from which mortar was made, contr. fr. caedimentum, fr. caedere to cut, prob. akin to scindere to cleave, and to E. shed, v. t.]

Etymology [Cf. F. cimenter. See Cement, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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