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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chamber

UK /ˈt͡ʃeɪ̯mbə/ · US /ˈt͡ʃeɪ̯mbɚ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms chambers chambering chambered chambre

  1. noun The private room of an individual, especially of someone wealthy or noble.
  2. noun A bedroom.
  3. noun The private office of a judge.
  4. noun The room used for deliberation by a legislature.
  5. noun (UK) A single law office in a building housing several.
  6. noun (dated, usually in the plural) Rooms in a lodging house.
  7. noun (figuratively) The legislature or division of the legislature itself. “The resolution, which speedily passed the Senate, was unable to gain a majority in the lower chamber.”
  8. noun Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room. “A canal lock chamber; a furnace chamber; a test chamber”
  9. verb (transitive) To enclose in a room. “She had chambered herself in her room, and wouldn't come out.”
  10. verb To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
  11. verb (transitive) To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition. “The hunter fired at the geese and missed, then shrugged his shoulders and chambered another cartridge.”
  12. verb (transitive) To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber. “The rifle was originally chambered for 9mm, but had since been modified for a larger, wildcat caliber.”
  13. verb (martial arts, transitive) To prepare an offensive, defensive, or counteroffensive action by drawing a limb or weapon to a position where it may be charged with kinetic energy. “Bob chambered his fist for a blow, but Sheila struck first.”
  14. verb (obsolete) To be lascivious.
  15. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

chamber pot blissom lust bedroom sleeping room sleeping accommodation bedchamber

Etymology

From Middle English chambre, borrowed from Old French chambre, from Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “vaulted chamber”). Doublet of camera.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.
  2. noun pl.
  3. verb To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
  4. verb To be lascivious. [Obs.]

Etymology [F. chambre, fr. L. camera vault, arched roof, in LL. chamber, fr. Gr. kmar to be crooked. Cf. Camber, Camera, Comrade.]

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

Sanskrit

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